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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (59294)	5/22/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572942

At Pricewatch, there are more vendors selling the 475MHz K6-2 than the 466MHz Celeron. There are also more vendors selling the 450MHz K6-2 than the 433MHz Celeron.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (59294)	5/22/1999 3:55:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572942

Ten, As for why, well ... er ... why not? If Intel is planning on IA-64 to be the "rage that sweeps the computing world," why not have an ambitious plan that involves not only servers and workstations, but desktops as well? The installed x86 software base has prevented numerous instruction set architectures from penetrating the desktop market, and I don't see any reason to think that IA64 will be different. It doesn't offer any performance advantage on the desktop, and is a hazardous architecture for sloppy programmers. Scumbria

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (59294)	5/22/1999 4:55:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Respond to of 1572942

As for why, well ... er ... why not? If Intel is planning on IA-64 to be the "rage that sweeps the computing world," why not have an ambitious plan that involves not only servers and workstations, but desktops as well? IA64 will face the same problems competing against the x86 as were faced by MIPS, PPC, Alpha, etc. Plus, PC ASPs are way lower today which makes it even more unlikely that a non-x86 processor can succeed. Diverted massive engineering resources from x86 development to IA64 was a big, big mistake that Intel is now paying for. Think opportunity cost.