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To: Paul Engel who wrote (71072)	1/12/1999 3:35:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Why don't you personally straighten out DEC, Intel, AMD, Cyrix, HP and Sun? I've spent a good portion of my career doing that already. I explained my motivations for going into the graphics industry yesterday. There are a lot of interesting fundamental problems yet to be solved with graphics performance. I probably will return to the CPU world at some point, but frankly I am rather frustrated with architects designing for SPEC rather than for ASP. Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (71072)	1/12/1999 3:54:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Look through the uP Forum proceedings. Everybody is bragging about how many execution units they have, out-of-order execution capabilities, etc. ad infinitum. They should be thinking about MHz, cache size, die size and manufacturability. The best microprocessors ever designed were the first few revs of Alpha. Logically, they were very simple CPUs which had a large cache and ran at a high clock speed. (BTW: 21264 appears to have been a step backwards, it runs at considerably slower clock rates than 21164.) If someone in the x86 world would have taken that same approach, they would have blown away the competition. Architects love to show off who's is bigger, but they do their companies and investors a huge disservice in the process. Scumbria