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To: FJB who wrote (55057)	4/10/1999 10:49:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1583396

Bob, MP on the desktop in 3-5 years would require CPUs to be priced in the $20-$25 range, since desktop prices are continuing to decline and are about $950 on average right now. How do you see this playing out? Absolutely. Cyrix processors are already selling in that range, and AMD and Intel aren't far behind. You can buy more than a dozen MII processors for the cost of a single PIII, and each one of the MIIs performs at 80% of the PIII. This gives a theoretical value proposition of about 1000% for the MP system. An MP system can be much simpler than the server systems we usually talk about. I am writing this message on a Winchip CPU being used in an MP environment. At the same time I'm writing this message on IE5.0, I have a Solaris window in the background connected to a Sparc Station at work running simulations . In other words, I'm running a high performance MP operation (with minimal communication) over my phone line. In addition, I have a high performance graphics processor in this machine displaying the Solaris windows. Scumbria