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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (69834)	8/25/1999 4:27:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572946

Pravin - <Also, as far as NT goes, if Merced means Intel, than Athlon means Intel. I seriously doubt if MS is stupid enough to kill Intel's only competition. They make money on every box shipped, and the competition has spurred sales. This will also hold true at the high end.> I'm pretty sure the K7 is not in any jeopardy of non-support from Microsoft. But think about what you are saying. Let me re-phrase. "as far as NT goes, if IA64 means Intel, than AMD's 32 bit means Intel." When put in this way, the statement really doesn't make much sense. Food for thought, PB

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (69834)	8/25/1999 4:39:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572946

Pravin - <I seriously doubt if MS is stupid enough to kill Intel's only competition. They make money on every box shipped, and the competition has spurred sales. This will also hold true at the high end.> If you read Eric N.'s posts, he indicated that the decision for no Alpha on NT was CPQ's due to basically no interest in the IT server community. This puts an entirely different spin on the NT / Alpha announcement. I would think if Alpha/CPQ had a hard time competing with Intel/NT, AMD will have a tough row to hoe to crack the corporate server space. I believe Jerry has said as much. PB

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (69834)	8/25/1999 9:46:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572946

Pravin - Re: "here are 15-20 million K6 users out there. Many will want to upgrade to the Athlon. " Remember a couple of years ago when you dumped all over Intel for introducing a Slot architecture such that Intel Pentium customers COULD NOT UPGRADE to a Pentium II without also buying a WHOLE NEW MOTHERBOARD. Well guess what? You can now dump all over AMD for not giving their Kdawg 6x customers an upgrade path. Go ahead - tell me why IT'S DIFFERENT FOR AMD THIS TIME ! Paul