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To: Paul Engel who wrote (44636)	1/3/1999 1:57:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) of 1572099

Pal, <Ail -Get a grip! Technology changes for everyone but YOU!> Formally you may have a point here. However, looking deeper, you seem to imply that "changes" are also good if they go backwards. Technology changes are socially justified when they lead to noticeable-to-significant progress in product usefulness. Intel makes platform changes with non-justified frequency, mostly to steer out the competition and with barely noticeable performance gains. They even go backwards as with the Celery chips! BTW, in case you miss it. Oddly enough, the transition to 100MHz FSB made much more benefits to Socket7 system performance than to Slot1 systems. For Socket7 it was a significant progress, while P-II systems had no visible benfits. Intel made a fart here. The P-II bus is a good one, no question. However, I feel that current Intel engineers and management have very little idea how it works in reality. They made changes in areas that are not bottlenecks, and therefore have no performance gain in full accord with the Amdahl law. No mystery here. Go woodworking, buddy, you are no good at polemic. Have a happy retirement.

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