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To: Judith Feder who wrote (10195)	8/23/1998 3:38:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

Judith - Jim Allchin made some comments on this a month or so ago. He said that the 64 bit OS would come out 'when it was ready' and not gated by merced. Various press reports (such as client-server news) report that the development is being done on Alpha, which makes sense since NT is already ported to Alpha and it is the only 64 bit chip MS has on which to do this work. Someone else (may have been Allchin) said that the 64 bit work would be at least 90 days behind the 32 bit release of NT5 but I have heard other estimates ranging up to a year behind NT5. If NT5 makes it out in '99 then the 64 bit version would be out in 2000, early '00 if you are optimistic.