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To: Red Scouser who wrote (54339)	3/22/1999 4:15:00 AM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

Hiya Neil: I've taken the liberty of re-posting from your link to The Register so that the references to ALPHA and Innovate are more obvious. (BTW the Reds have had a lot of fixtures postponed because opponents are in Europe. Only one game in March (which they lost). Posted 21/03/99 5:40pm by Mike Magee Compaq breaks for border with Alpha chip Another flurry of snow flakes from our mole at Compaq who must be very deep within the company, judging from the information. Towards the end of the month, we are due to meet one Bill Herrick, a senior Compaq executive on the Alpha platform. He is the author of this SlideWare so we are now fully armed and ready for the meeting. The insider slipped us the PowerPoint presentation which is far too big to upload (for us) or download (for you). We have printed the slide outline as a PDF file, which you can download from here. For those who want the complete presentation, we have zipped it up and you can download it from here. (NB 700K). What's significant is the emphasis Compaq is putting on comparisons between its Alpha and the rest. We can't see a mention of Merced in here anywhere. The symmetric multiprocessing in EV8 codenamed Arana isn't in this set of slides but compares extremely favourably to IA-64 Merced. But EV8 and onwards might require the help of Kryotech and its cool technology, we are given to understand. We're looking forward to the 1000MHz EV68 this year. And the slides mention that Compaq is a fabless company, so expect much of this stuff from Samsung... As we are not being invited to Compaq Innovate this year for some reason or other, we won't be able to meet our mole in person... ®

To: Red Scouser who wrote (54339)	3/22/1999 4:18:00 AM
From: rupert1	Respond to of 97611

The second ALPHA reference in The Register. Posted 21/03/99 7:48pm by Mike Magee Compaq's Wildfire shows scale of ambitions It seems repetitive to go on about the argument Compaq CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer had with senior Intel VP Hans Geyer all those years ago, as exclusively reported here. But Compaq is definitely going for it big time. Our mole deep inside Texas pointed us to a secret URL with the following slides, which we've cut down to two colours to save space. A couple of these slides are more or less in the public domain but the others are most certainly not. This slide shows the common components of Compaq's attack on the low, mid and high end markets Shows the scalable nature of the Alpha platform and how the elements can be attached together. The Alpha is described as a "universal platform" How four processor systems work How 32 processors work together How 72 processors work together Price bands for low, medium and high end systems Given the above, how can IA-64 Merced hope to compete, if it arrives on time? Our mole is going to be at Compaq Innovate. Pity we won't get to meet him... ®