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To: Time Traveler who wrote (27465)	12/31/1997 11:14:00 PM
From: Buckwheat	Read Replies (2) of 1579581

John,, I don't find anything "technically inferior or superior" because of "cost". But now that we know that the reason was cost and maybe not technical advancement, what "cost" are we talking about? The only significant "cost" factors I see are: Higher priced boards for consumers. Higher priced cases and power supplies for consumers. Motherboard vendors achieving parity or superiority have to start over Another "start" at the bottom, step by step chipset feature upgrading (FX, LX, BX, ??, ??, ??) Sounds like the end user was sold another round of more "costs" so that Intel could hold the other vendors at bay a little longer. If there are genuine technical advantages, I would be interested in hearing about them. It would also be interesting to know the comparative performance of the slot 1 PII 300 verses the theoratical PPRO 300 on a socket 8 board. Anyone care to speculate. We already know that Intel is willing to dup the user out of signicant performance to save $10 ($-less PII). Maybe they're willing to dup them out of several hundred dollars for less performance. Buckwheat

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