Merced to suck

Robert Harley (Robert.Harley@inria.fr)
Fri, 7 Aug 1998 08:07:55 +0200 (MET DST)

For those with eyes to see, it's been obvious for along time that
Merced will be crap. Now some people are suspecting it's totally off
track e.g.:

http://www.abcnews.com/sections/tech/CNET/cnet_merced0806.html

Is Merced doomed?

[...]
Sources indicate that
[Merced]...is facing problems that could
jeopardize [its] existence as a viable
product
[...]

etc ad nauseam. One smart cookie came up with this:

I'm not convinced [Merced] will run faster
than an equally fast RISC [Reduced
Instruction Set Computing] chip

You don't say!

Goin' on holiday,
Rob.