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To: Rob Young who wrote (56363)4/26/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1570343
 
Rob - Re: "When did Microsoft start working on this - last month ?... Paul, Maybe you were out of town. "

That article was dated 4/9/99 - so maybe Microsoft started working on it THIS MONTH.

Thanks for pointing that out.

I'm sure this will be Microsoft's first OS to ship on time - maybe even AHEAD of schedule !

Re: " Hummm, come to think of it, Intel doesn't really specialize in crafting OSes. "

Now you are way out of your league.

The 64 Bit Windows 2000/Merced edition will have quite a bit of code in it that was written in Santa Clara, CA.

By a large CPU manufacturer also headquartered in that City.

Paul



To: Rob Young who wrote (56363)4/26/1999 12:47:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1570343
 
<"Slated for release early in 2000 for the 64-bit Alpha platform, the 64-bit Windows 2000 operating system will trump the Intel version in the data center by adding features such as scalability and fault-tolerance - capabilities">

And the reason why these scalability and fault-tolerance capabilities can't be featured on an SHV Merced Windows 2000 is ...

Tenchusatsu


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