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To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (44129)	12/28/1998 11:33:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) of 1573221

Bruce, I think we will have some good news too. the fact that intel is going back to a chip based celeron shows what I said all along is true. "there was no tech need for the slot 1, it is just a marketing method" I wonder when Intel will bury it forever...remember the microchannel, and how IBM clung to it? What about the AMD alpha one slot based thing? will it too die? Some of the non-Intel-biased tech people might comment about the slot one future now that on chip cache is a reality. Does the slot 1(both AMD-Alphatech and the Intel style) have a future? What makes it pre-eminently desireable? Do the variable length instructions that Intel has make a real advantage? or can they be parallelled out of existence by better architectures. To be sure as busses get faster you need more and more stuff running faster and getting it closer to the CPU helps, so they may in fact stuff more stuff in the slot 1 case and AMDs version will go right along with them and we will have two motherboards as we have had for several years now as iit is unlikely that AMD will be able to make slot 1 compliant products unless they are purchased by a foundry with and Intel cross licence? Bill

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