424B3 1 f424b3_050602.txt PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT PROSPECTUS SUPPLEMENT FILED PURSUANT TO RULE NO. 424(b)(3) (To Prospectus dated March 12, 2002) REGISTRATION NO. 333-96061 [INTERNET ARCHITECTURE HOLDRS LOGO] 1,000,000,000 Depositary Receipts Internet Architecture HOLDRS (SM) Trust This prospectus supplement supplements information contained in the prospectus dated March 12, 2002 relating to the sale of up to 1,000,000,000 depositary receipts by the Internet Architecture HOLDRS (SM) Trust. The share amounts specified in the table on page 13 of the base prospectus shall be replaced with the following:
Share Primary Name of Company Ticker Amounts Trading Market --------------- ------ ------- -------------- 3Com Corporation COMS 3 Nasdaq NMS Adaptec, Inc. ADPT 1 Nasdaq NMS Apple Computer, Inc. AAPL 2 Nasdaq NMS Ciena Corporation CIEN 2 Nasdaq NMS Cisco Systems, Inc. CSCO 26 Nasdaq NMS Compaq Computer Corporation CPQ 13 NYSE Dell Computer Corporation DELL 19 Nasdaq NMS EMC Corporation EMC 16 NYSE Extreme Networks, Inc. EXTR 2 Nasdaq NMS Foundry Networks, Inc. FDRY 1 Nasdaq NMS Gateway, Inc. GTW 2 NYSE Hewlett-Packard Company HWP 14 NYSE International Business Machines Corporation IBM 13 NYSE Juniper Networks, Inc. JNPR 2 Nasdaq NMS McDATA Corporation MCDTA 0.589 Nasdaq NMS Network Appliance, Inc. NTAP 2 Nasdaq NMS Roxio Inc. ROXI 0.165 Nasdaq NMS Sun Microsystems, Inc. SUNW 25 Nasdaq NMS Sycamore Networks, Inc. SCMR 2 Nasdaq NMS Unisys Corporation UIS 2 NYSE Veritas Software Corporation VRTS 0.893 Nasdaq NMS
The share amounts listed in the table above reflect all previous stock splits, dividends and business combination transactions. The date of this prospectus supplement is March 31, 2002.