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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (38208)	10/5/1998 4:50:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 1572982

Tenchusatsu, Re: "Pardon me for going off on a tangent, Ali. You are very correct when you mention that 80% of the requirements for server and workstation support are non CPU-related." This is getting very convoluted, or confusing, to say the least. First, I don't care who is identified as the one who pointed out something new here, or not. Nevertheless, to set the record straight, I was the one that posted that selling server chips depends on a whole lot more than just the CPU chip's attributes themselves. I mentioned big L2 caches", hot-swappability, all your "security", and a bunch of other things: Message 5842575 that Ali responded to with: "80% of your items are largely independent of the CPU features." Just wanted to point out that he's saying, it sounds like, that only the CPU chip counts in being qualified for a server, and I'm saying there are a whole lot more infrastructure things (his 80%, and that's low) that are required. While I'm here, BTW, I have to point out again that only Intel has those other infrastructure things going for them in support of their chips right now, and has all the major server manufacturers as customers expecting them. This is why AMD will come out of the server gate at a crawl. Tony