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To: Steve Porter who wrote (55801)	4/17/1999 8:58:00 PM
From: DRBES	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578717

re: "Imagine code tuned for a K7.. cool.." Given the current cool state of the relationship between iNTEL and Microsoft: NOT AT ALL SURPRISING! Regards, DARBES

To: Steve Porter who wrote (55801)	4/18/1999
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578717

Steve - <Imagine code tuned for a K7> I don't know much about these sorts of things, but intuitively this is not surprising. Microsoft has over time been increasing it's support for "alternative" CPU's. If true, this development certainly doesn't appear to hurt the K7. PB You are responding to this message from Steve Porter on Apr 17 1999 8:42PM EST ProcessBoy, I was just reading something very interesting in the ol' AMD Winhec presentation. Apparently it looks as though Microsoft is planning on improving their compiler for alternative CPUs. This would really signal a change in things. A lot of Intel's performance gains come form the fact that every major compiler optimizes specifically for the Intel pipelines and in so doign penalizes other CPUs. Imagine code tuned for a K7.. cool.. Regards, Steve