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To: Paul Engel who wrote (42118)	11/23/1998 2:45:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) of 1571686

Paul, RE:"My guess is that the COMDEX DEMO reality set in: The K7 had NO RAMBUS support - Intel's Camino DEMO did. The K7 reportedly had a back side L2 bus speed of only 1/3 the CPU speed. Not good - perfromance will suffer badly. The K7 DID NOT HAVE a 200 MHz front Side bus - as has been reported prior to the DEMO. Ergo, AMD's K7 has a long way to go before it is ready for "prime time". Sharpy was demoed at 400 MHz - not 450 MHz. Again, not too encouraging."... You give these Analysts way too much credit if you think they can weigh all that... They ain't that smart...they don't know a BUS from a RAM... As for Sharpy...I think it will scale with the K6-2 so 400 is tops for now... The other thing I heard at the fronton was that the K7 was actually running faster than 500MHz....but can't verify it... Regards, Jim

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