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To: Brian Hutcheson who wrote (41407)	11/13/1998 2:02:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572161

Re: "Elmer , since DEC's Alpha has been running SMP in servers The main architectural changes for K7 shouldn't be too difficult since Dirk Meyer has been involved in both projects and is the team leader for K7 . Since you know so much about the technical difficulties perhaps you should contact him and offer your help <vbg> " Come on Brian, think about it. The Alpha is a highend product. The bus architecture is advanced but it isn't cheap. It has been discussed here and we just can't come up with a way to impliment it without a whole bunch of pins for each processor port. AMD isn't going to ship a product to the desktop market with the same chipset that will service the SMP market. There are a lot of unanswered questions. I don't have the answers and would welcome anyone who does. The simple position that "it ain't gonna happen" stands until someone provides a better answer. EP