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To: carl a. mehr who wrote (87402)	8/30/1999 12:41:00 AM
From: L. Adam Latham	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Carl and all: An article referenced on the AMD thread: nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com Micro-Star to Recall Motherboards for AMD's Athlon Chips August 30, 1999 (TAIPEI) -- Taiwan's Micron-Star International Co., Ltd. (MSI) will recall its motherboards for U.S.-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD)'s Athlon microprocessors. A letter dated Aug. 21, to personal computer makers, which was cosigned by AMD and MSI, said that they found some of the motherboards equipped with AMD's chipsets lack compatibility and cannot fulfill PC cold starts. Only motherboards with the MS-6167 model are now being marketed, according to MSI. MSI will join with AMD to find solutions to the problems. They will soon start shipping modified motherboards. The modifications will be done by updating part of BIOS and replacing components, without replacing the chipsets. Also, MSI said it will replace MS-6167 motherboards, which have already been shipped, with modified ones. Users can distinguish between flawed motherboards and modified ones by the shape of a sticker that reads "for Japanese market" on each motherboard package. The former units have a star shape seal and the later units feature a round one. PC retailers that have shipped products with the Athlon system will soon begin exchanges. AMD hasn't disclosed details about the chipset-related problems. Unlike the contents of the cosigned letter to the PC makers, AMD's PR unit said that its chipsets have no defects, but there is a problem with incompatibility among components installed on the motherboards. Also, MSI didn't arrange the components correctly on the motherboards and some mismanagement was evident, AMD said, underlining MSI's responsibility. MSI explained that the combination of a 600MHz Atholn chip and AMD's chipset (production version C1 or C2) has a high probability of encountering problems. AMD Japan Ltd. asked MSI and PC retailers to refrain from selling MS-6167 motherboards and products equipped with the motherboards until the modified ones are introduced. Replacement work will be done by MSI, and AMD will share the replacement costs (US$8 a board). Due to the problems of incompatibility among some components installed on the motherboards, AMD implemented customer service that's regarded as epoch-making. That's because it proposed replacing all the Athlon motherboards with modified ones.

To: carl a. mehr who wrote (87402)	8/30/1999 3:45:00 PM
From: Frank Ellis Morris	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Carl if one were to invest $10,000 in each of the three companies Intel, Microsoft and Cisco going forward over the next 10 years do you think that the market will generously reward long term shareholders or will people like Greenspan who is now spooking the markets make it impossible to expect good long term results?? Greenspan has gone mad and there is nothing stopping this market from falling a thousand points or more. Why should anybody buy anything with the terrorist that now has a free hand as a dictator over the financial markets and its fate. You could commit funds and all of a sudden Greenspan will say or do something in a minute to pull the rug out from you. What this guy is getting away with baffles me more than anything I have seen in over 30 years in the market. I am absolutely amazed that this guy is able to walk down the street without somebody knocking him on his butt. People jump off the top of Casino buildings in Atlantic City for loosing several thousands of dollars. They do not know where to vent their frustration or how to get help. Greenspan and his clan are now on a war path driving the the high interest rate tanks right up to your house and firing rounds into your living room window telling you to sell or else. We are all victims in a corner and something has to give to break the fear and terror that now prevails. Where do you think the help and relief will come from?? I can't believe the number of e-mail I am getting about how much Greenspan is hated. This guy does not believe in the technology revolution we are now having nor does he want you to be economically free. The Greenspan of the past is the terror of the present and the future. Are you a little concerned about using so much margin given the present fear of the Fed Chairman and his ambition to lower the market highs?? Maybe it is time to change the party from Democrats to Republicans and they may ask Mr.Greenspan to leave. Do you think that Mr. Clinton will pass the gauntlet to Mr. Gore and will Hiliary win in New York for her political seat?? Frank