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To: Scumbria who wrote (78053)4/8/1999 11:32:00 AM
From: Paul Fiondella   of 186894
 
Here I differ with you a bit

Price doesn't determine the sale into the enterprise as much as reliability. There will be a great deal of resistance to replacing known INTC quantities with AMD ones for servers etc. Especially given the track record of some of the AMD MB chipset manufacturers. Less so perhaps with workstations.

My bet is that AMD will go after the workstation market with the K7 with the lower price higher performance argument. It won't work with servers.

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Incidentally a funny thing happened to me with Win98 and a 128MB K6-2-333 1 MB cache system. I crashed it with 5 programs and 30 processes open. Its been so long since I crashed a system on a daily basis I had forgotten that it even happens. AT DEC we used to crash the system like some people play slot machines.

This tells you something about Microsoft OS's. I had to kill the power manager crap and the poorly written serial port modem fax crap.

Software is so badly written today. I opened one dialup modem program this AM and it used nearly 100% of the CPU. I can't conceive of how a program could be written that poorly.

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So if you build a good CPU, you still have to deal with Microsoft crap in an OS.
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