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To: Steve Porter who wrote (58807)6/25/1998 8:05:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Also to add some more doom and gloom (sorry, but just calling it as I see it), what about AMD(and IDTI and Cyrix) with 3D-NOW, the PowerPC with AltiVec, and the raw power of the Dec Alpha. Throw in Sega, Nintendo and Sony and there is ALOT of competition in the gmaing market. A PII is _not_ the most effecient way to get decent game performance.

Can I get Quicken for a Sega? How about Excel for Sony? Or Word for Nintendo? That's why a PC is called a General Purpose computer. Sure, a dedicated game computer will whip a PII's ass for game playing but if you think that nobody's looking for a high-performance PC for gaming then you must also believe that nobody's buying Voodoo2 cards.

As far as AMD goes, they've never been able to get an acceptable yield with larger dies. What makes you think they can do it now on smaller dies? Because Sanders says so yet again? Has he ever been right about yields or his company's profit projections in the past?

Every time Intel comes out with a new chip everyone says how nobody needs it because there's no software to stress it. This always changes because someone realizes they can now do something that just wasn't possible in the past. Hell, if NASA can land a man on the moon with on-board computers having less power than in my dear old departed Pinecomm 8088 then why would anyone need anything faster?
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