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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (116476)6/19/2000 10:45:00 AM
From: kapkan4u  Read Replies (1) of 1571586
 
<Greg Favor, a senior fellow at AMD, said that conceivably this might mean that the K7 and Alpha processors would achieve a certain level of compatibility, essentially allowing both chips to be used interchangeably on computer circuit boards, referred to as "motherboards." >

Designing a common chipset and MB is quite different from changing BIOS and sticking Athlons in an Alpha MB.

<We were told early on that because Athlon used Aphla's EV6 bus protocol it would be able to use Alpha MBs, with a BIOS change.>

I guess the answer to my original question is that it is a new lie, but this time you really mean it.

Kap
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