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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (42879)	12/6/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572605

Re: "That's an example of the difference between theoretical throughput and real-world performance." And for some reason KNI will be exempt from this theoretical vs. real world law of performance difference? I doubt it. You might also note that in Tom's test, he is running a BETA release of the EARLIEST VERSION of AMD's Quake 2 patch. Believe me it's been improved since then. Finally, the fact is that full potential of 3dNow on Quake 2 (a very memory-intensive application) will not be realized until the K6-2 core has access to a faster memory subsystem. Of course, the PII does have a better memory subsystem, which is why the performance here is comparable. Re: "As with 3D-Now, native support in software is much more important than DirectX support." Agreed. Re: "Intel could always withhold those valuable Merced specs from Microsoft and make sure that Microsoft is late to the IA-64 game." This has got to be one of the funnier things I've read on this thread. Are you kidding me? Believe me, without Microsoft/Windows support, there will be more PowerPC (or, for that matter, MIPS) chips sold than Merced chips. Intel needs Microsoft a whole lot more than Microsoft needs Intel. That's why Microsoft's market cap is $343.9 billion and Intel's is $203.9, even though Microsoft's yearly revenues are billions and billions less than Intel's. Kevin