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To: fyo who wrote (66906)	7/29/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) of 1576346

<The Athlon design does introduce many new things - just as the PPRO did.> In my opinion, this is very debatable. I still hold to my view that the Athlon is what you get when you take the P6 core and throw three times as many transistors at it. (I'm going to be flamed for saying that, but that's my own opinion.) <To go back to the MDR article for a second: It was complete rubbish. I'm sorry, but that is my personal opinion of it.> No need to apologize. I agree that the MDR article is very subjective, much like my own opinions regarding the "generationivity" of Athlon. Take it for what it's worth. In any case, as I said many times over, Athlon doesn't really need to be "true seventh-generation" in order to be successful. Parity with Intel's latest-n-greatest is more than enough to bring AMD back to profitability. All other arguments over its architecture can easily degrade into "p---ing contests" that have no relevancy whatsoever. (And certainly that MDR article didn't help matters any.) Tenchusatsu

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