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To: Charles R who wrote (68520)	8/12/1999 9:40:00 AM
From: Jim Davis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577124

RE: zdnet.com This is great! "Time and time again, PC Week Labs called the leading PC manufacturers (Compaq, Dell, Gateway, IBM, Micron and others), and, strangely, none could (or would) ship an Intel Pentium III system to our labs. Hmm, we thought,could it be they were taking the summer off for vacation? Maybe sales were so hot that inventories were reduced to zero. No, that couldn't be it. Was I saying something to each of the vendors that could be causing a problem? Could it be I was requesting a system to compare with AMD's new Athlon processor?" And the excuse from the vendors that they (PIII machines) "dont' really compete in the same market."