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To: Steve Porter who wrote (44419)	12/31/1998 12:13:00 AM
From: kash johal	Respond to of 1572777

Steve, I agree. I see an ALPHA RISC instruction melded to a K-7 x86 engine, with 1-2Mb of full speed onchip cache running at 1-2Ghz. Also the legacy support for ALPHA and x86 might position such a chip as a better platform than a brand new architecture. Now I wonder who could is positioned to deliver us such a beast in yr 2000-2001. Regards, Kash

To: Steve Porter who wrote (44419)	12/31/1998 12:28:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572777

Steve - Re: " I see a plethora of multi instruction set capable chips in the next 5 years. " I know of one such chip in the works. Is Cyrix or AMD working on one of their own? Paul

To: Steve Porter who wrote (44419)	12/31/1998 9:01:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1572777

Paul, They are coming down the pike and Intel is trying to make their one unique with that flash password concept, like a builtin dongle. Software authors will like it and write it in and place a sunset oon their old software after which all will use the new Intel method. Will it win?, or will people hate it and workarounds(cheats) occur? The time is now to stop this idea and make it an open concept, or in 2 years the only systems that will run x86 software will be Intel products due to this built in dongle. Make no mistake, it will be enormously attractive to software writers and if they band with intel(ie if microsoft bands with intel on this) AMD/Cyrix etc could fail. If the concept fails then it will humble intel enormously as they will lose any shred of moral high ground they will attempt to claim with this concept...we only want to sto piracy...grin? Bill