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To: Burt Masnick who wrote (85113)	7/8/1999 2:18:00 PM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

It must be nice to live in an alternate universe. furman.edu

To: Burt Masnick who wrote (85113)	7/8/1999 2:59:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 186894

Burt, <Apparently when engineers work at Intel they immediately become braindead> If "Tenchusatu" is representative of an average Intel engineer, you may be correct:) His posts reveal a way below-then-stellar qualifications in the field he claims to work in (server chipsets). <many AMD boosters assume that it's a piece of cake to make a multi-processor system.> That's basically correct. There is no big problem to built "a multiprocessor system". Anyone "skilled in the field" can do _A_ system. The problem is to make it run with the existent operating system, which assumes, in turn, some specific responses that were defined by Intel engineers but are not well specified in their "specifications". Got where the problem is? BTW, speaking about alternative universe, I am wondering whether the Intel MP bus specifications were defined by Russians as well: "Intel uses Russia military technologies" theregister.co.uk

To: Burt Masnick who wrote (85113)	7/8/1999 4:25:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<Exactly. Apparently when engineers work at Intel they immediately become braindead and/or evil whereas engineers working at AMD,IBM, Compaq, Gateway (but not Dell!) are invariably brilliant and virtuous.> Don't forget that Intel always steals ideas from others (AMD, Digital, Compaq, Intergraph, Russia, Romulan Empire), they buy back stock in a futile attempt to look like a good company (you know, $2 billion in quarterly profit just doesn't cut it), and they mistreat all their employees like crazy (just ask Ken "Go Postal" Hamidi of FACE Intel). <It must be nice to live in an alternate universe.> The realities that people live in are shaped by their own biases. If the AMD supporters want to believe that Intel is nothing but smoke-n-mirrors, let them believe that. Tenchusatsu