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From:

http://www.itworld.com/Man/3828/020816mcnealy/

Scott McNealy:

"When you take a 99-way UltraSPARC III machine and add a 100th processor, 
you get 94 percent linear scalability. You can't get 94 percent linear 
scalability on your first Intel chip. It's very, very hard to do, and they 
have not done it."



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