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To: Frank A. Ryder who wrote (7071)	3/1/1998 8:27:00 PM
From: Hippieslayer	of 11555

I think we might be reading too much into the death of socket seven. My reasoning is this: There are millions of pc's out now using socket 7. Even if socket seven where to become extinct tomorrow, there are still millions of computer users out there that would rather upgrade their uP than buy a whole new computer. I don't know the exact answer, but can you upgrade a computer that has a socket 7 MB to one with a Slot one MB. If you can, how much work is it to do so? Also, I just read on News.com--I think I posted the article, that it's very difficult to upgrade a PII processor. I think that Intel is going to have a hard time convincing the computer industry to completely abandon socket 7 for slot 1. And I think that as manufactures tinker with socket 7 (super 7 and maybe super 7+ as a mate to the C7+?) to make it as good or better than slot 1(and possibly less expensive to manufacture), Intel is going to find themselves naked and left out of the cold. I believe Andy Grove said that only the paranoid survive. But this may be the case where the greedy and paranoid find themselves digging a huge hole that they might not get out of.

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