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To: Steve Porter who wrote (35557)	8/7/1998 9:14:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575551

Funny info about Merced and the reason for it's delay: Whats inside MERCED? - browser stuff!!! x6.dejanews.com "The first Merced processors will ship with an application instruction kernel for Mendax, a multimedia Web browser being developed jointly between Intel and Hewlett-Packard. Recent announcements of delays in the release of Merced are due to unanticipated hangups in the software development program. Note that the design is completely compatible with running third-party web browsers such as Netscape's Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer. It is entirely an extra functionality that the user can choose to use or not use. However, the full performance of the Merced processor will only be available when executing from the application ROM space." ------ Note, the article was presumably written by an Intel engineer... Look also into the follow-ups, where computer architects are mocking about the decision to stuff the "aplication kernel" with browser junk instead of important OS kernel functions. How pathetic!!!