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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tony Viola who wrote (38190)	10/5/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572898

Tony, <WRT non-toy (AMD type) computers is a standard in the industry and a serious spec. parameter> I am far from objecting that servers have more requirements for design than desktops. However, from your original post Message 5842575 it is crystal clear that you need to request some additional training on the subject. Your list is an eclectic mixture of requirements for HW system designers, SW support, mechanical engineering, with very few items that are directly related to the CPU design itself. 80% of your items are largely independent of the CPU features (including "big L2 caches", hot-swappability, all your "security", etc, etc). Even ECC can be of more importance in DRAM/L2 link rather that at CPU/L1 side. Even SMP can be implemented in PC-board core logic if badly wanted. As for reliability and debug, for your information, tools like TAP (Test Access Port, formerly JTAG and now as IEEE 1149.1-1990 spec), HDT (Hardware Debug Tool), Functional-Redundancy Checking, not mentioning BIST, were there from the day one even on K5 - go check current specs on K6 or dig some old book on K5. I guess this is enough to prove that your endorsement of AMD processors as "toy-types" is a result of serious flaw in your information and/or training. <Sounds like you don't want to know.> No surprise, this turns back to you perfectly:)