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To: Elmer who wrote (14307)	3/16/1997 2:05:00 AM
From: Kashish King	of 186894

Why K6 is Virtually D.O.A. The K6 is another niche market dud which will probably find a home as a cheap upgrade for desktop computers running older DOS and Windows 3.1 and with no plans to update the software. The reason for this is simple: modern desktop and notebook software is making ever-increasing use of sound, video, pictures and animations; while financial and accounting software resides on enterprise servers. Putting aside notebooks and multi-processor servers where the K6 does not have any presence whatsoever, the lack of floating point performance excludes the K6 as a viable alternative to single processor Pentiums in the enterprise, corporate or small business server market. The dismal floating point performance places K6 and the proverbial bottom of the barrel for desktop graphical applications as well since floating point operations are critical for these applications -- even with support for Intel's MMX (TM) available. To put it bluntly, the K6 is designed to enhance DOS and doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of competing with Intel's already-released Pentium 200, especially for those looking to run modern applications. Worse still, there is no guarantee the K6 will even make it as a DOS-box upgrade. The Pentium 200 will be coming down in price making the costs of switching even less attractive. Brand recognition is always going to help Intel and most users plan on upgrading their software, even if they never actually get around to doing it, ergo, they should upgrade with a processor that can handle it.

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