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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Scumbria who wrote (45114)1/7/1999 8:42:00 PM
From: TGPTNDR  Read Replies (1) of 1571928
 
Scumbria Re: < If someone had told you 12 months ago that AMD based computers would would make up the lion's share of retail PC sales by Christmas, you would have laughed them off. >

In reality, Bill Jackson said <It means nothing to the average
smart person if an AMD or Intel CPU is in there at the same speed. Who cares that the AMD is 5% faster,?, a few hackers maybe, but the bulk do not care>

To which Paul responded <Last year AMD and Intel had a real life contest.

It was determined that the average smart person preferred an Intel CPU to an AMD CPU 80,000,000 to 2,850,000, or 28 to 1.>

techstocks.com

It would appear that the average smart person no longer prefers an Intel CPU 28 to 1.

tgptndr
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