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To: Paul Engel who wrote (45562)	1/12/1999 10:25:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573540

Re: "I hope Kevin Spurway and Maxwell and Kash will take note of this !" I don't remember arguing with you about DX6.1 support for KNI. If I did, it was only to annoy you. In any case, that was an interesting article. Note: "To take full advantage of KNI, Intel would have to redesign the CPU's floating-point unit (FPU) to double the width of its pipelines [to 128 bits], and that would delay the chip's debut. So Intel compromised: Katmai has the same FPU as any other P6 chip and uses only half the capacity of KNI." Exactly what I predicted, a couple of weeks ago. Coupled with anemic software support, KNI will disappoint in its earliest (Pentium III) form. Kevin