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To: Paul Engel who wrote (437)	6/21/1996 2:08:00 AM
From: Jack L. Dlugach	of 1585970

PS: 100M processor is not 1/2 the speed of 200M...check out relations of processor-to-buss speed...75M actually slower than 66M...166M slower than 133M...200M actually only 2% to 14% faster than 133M, depending on the application. Sounds like you fell for the Intel Inside hype...nothing wrong with the Pentium...bought one myself...but compare some of the others in a side- by-side demo: the differences are becoming so small with the newer stuff that it's barely perceptible, if at all. In fact, the K5 cpu that you just slammed beat some of the Pentiums that cost twice as much... the general public doesn't know that, but the computer manufacturers do...AMD brought some nearly bankrupt computer manufacturers back from the brink by allowing them to build those Wal-Mart computers, and they didn't sell in the hundreds...they sold in the millions, and they sold out...that's why excess capacity is needed at times: to build more when the need arises. By the way, I highly recommend INTC stock...that is one of the world's great companies; I just don't think it is a logical comparison: AMD or National Semi or any other to Intel.

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