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To: Dale J. who wrote (37805)	9/30/1998 12:55:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573127

Re: "Well Intel's IA-64 Merced/EPIC a first of its kind. Right? Read it and Weep!" EPIC--brought to you courtesy of Hewlett Packard. Implemented poorly by Intel in Merced. Soon to be surpassed by the HP team working on McKinley. Kevin

To: Dale J. who wrote (37805)	9/30/1998 9:20:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1573127

Dale, <Merced/EPIC a first of its kind.> There is nothing to weep about yet. A desperate desire to innovate is not equal to a successful innovation. Every time Intel tried to "innovate" it was a flop - remember iAPX432? It was also "first of a kind". And the last as well. Very few remember it because of the stupid idea to cast inherent software functions in silicon. Or their brain damaged design of memory segments in x86 - one of the reasons for countless software bugs we all suffer from. infopad.eecs.berkeley.edu Merced will be no different for the same reason: brain damaging in security of isolation. Of course, there is a chance that the whole world will be brought to it's knees by the gorilla and suffocate in "explicit parallelism" even where there is none. If you still wonder about P-II/Pro, my opinion remains the same: the success of PentiumPro core is based on stolen idea of "short tick design" from DEC. <Mr. Ali re: So, instead of...> BTW, you may call me simply "Dr.Chen". That will be more correct, :-) Regards (? I am not sure..weep? :-) - Ali