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To: Elmer who wrote (71434)	9/8/1999 8:17:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575773

Elmer, All this underscores the mismanagement that has been in place for years. They just don't understand the difference between a design and a product. I don't think they ever will. Good observation. K7 is never going to happen. Scumbria

To: Elmer who wrote (71434)	9/8/1999 8:25:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1575773

RE:"The Athlon is a excellent design that doesn't match up with the available manufacturing technology"... I'm no expert but it seems that AMD designed the Athlon to run at the lowest common denominator of available technology, available slot, BUS, chipset, available RAM etc... So you are saying that the Taiwan motherboard makers don't have the technology to make an Athlon motherboard correctly? I would be surprised if that were true. As Ten alluded to earlier, Intel has more resources to assure compatible design interface between cpu and motherboard, perhaps making it easier for the Taiwan motherboard makers to copy. Jim