Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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yourbankruptcy, don't be so quick to agree! You can see in my post #8305 that Intel did make such a promise in 1994 and repeated it in 1997 - Itanium (Merced) workstations by 1999! It seems that our Intel folks here have selective memory when it comes to Itanium history.

When I worked at 3Com, back when Metcalfe (of Ethernet fame) ran the place, he had a favorite item he worked into his standard presentation: Factoids. A factoid, he would tell us, is any statement that is repeated by three different people. It would be then mistaken for a fact by listeners.

We have here a classic factoid - that Intel never promised a Merced workstation, and certainly not by the end of the last decade - repeated by all the Intel folks here until others believe them. Of course, Intel's own web site tells us a very different story.

Isn't the internet great?