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To: Bob Drzyzgula who wrote (63522)	6/27/1999 1:23:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Respond to of 1571207

Bob, Re: Sorry, usually I just lurk, but... All AMD shareholders should say thank you for your support. Just hope that you can make this a day time job to convince all those who is still paying those outrageous price for HP/Sun/Intel or whatever. Gary

To: Bob Drzyzgula who wrote (63522)	6/27/1999 11:06:00 AM
From: grok	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571207

Great post, Bob! And, of course, one reason that the PA8500 costs $24K is its 1.5 MByte of on-chip, full speed cache. I forget the die size but it's enormous. Dirk could easily slap 1.5 MB on K7 and SpecFP would humm but it would be a dumb idea to do it since, as you point out, it's not so effective beyond benchmarks. Bob, do you really work for the FED? Could you slip us a tip on what Alan will do on Tues? (Just kidding.) K7Nerd

To: Bob Drzyzgula who wrote (63522)	6/27/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571207

Bob - Re: "...come '00, I'll be buying some Athlons to put in racks; I'll load them up with Linux and we'll take them out for a spin. we use Dual PIIs in our high end right now). We have no regrets." Nice rant. Let us know when you get those Athlon's and how they perform. Paul

To: Bob Drzyzgula who wrote (63522)	6/27/1999 2:06:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571207

Bob, Thanks for the post. Clearly the market is very complex at the high end. For business2business servers I can see value in high end servers due to support and RAS(tony viola RIP) all they way up to Tandem servers which are designed to be Non-Stop. For lots of other apps. Linux is winning out and the K7 will be the lowest cost/highest performance Linux system out there. I suspect it will do very well in that market as well as the NT workstation market. I am talking about the version of L7 with larger full speed cache in the slot B motherboards coming later this year. I suspect dual K7 systems running at 800M+ will run well under $5-6K. Their performance should easily exceed a Quad Xeon 600 with 2Mb cache - not that such a beast is available today. Such sales will be significant to AMDs bottom line in Q1 2000 methinks. thanks again for your post. Regards, Kash