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To: Alec Epting who wrote (14272)	3/15/1997 7:00:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	of 186894

Alec Epting: <I wonder why Intel licensed MMX to AMD in the first place, given AMD's track record on 486 microcode. Anybody know why?> Because the Intel is a shark of monopolistic market. They fooled the industry by creating an image that the MMX is the mainstream of computing technology and it will be open. They needed an acceptance of Microsoft to have the software support for their addition to their handicapped x86 instruction set. You know, any industry needs second sources, and again AMD was there to support this requirement. Now Intel suies AMD for this. The story with 486 code is repeating. By the way, for those who thinks that the MMX is something of high ingenuity, you are wrong. Anyone with a standard engineering brain can propose similar of even more effective (remember weird Intel's register mapping) instruction set. Cyrix did this. NexGen did this. The question is not what to do, but to do the same, standard. The point is that Intel wants to play anticompetition game and did something of their own and not necessarily the best, trying to phase out competition. SEC is the same game. PCI was exception. Regards, - Ali

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