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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (89265)	10/2/1999 3:16:00 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: new upstarts giving away pc's... Those companies will collapse. Nobody's giving away PCs. They're charging $1080 for $360 worth of internet acces, and including a $500 PC to make up the difference (or variation on same). It's a scam and a terrible deal, and it seems to be dying off as they run out of illiterates who can't read a sales agreement. Re: how good are these machines as SERVERS? CPU often isn't the most important factor on a server since DMA transfers between disk controller, network card, and ram are the constraints. Limits here are often in the chipset and Intel hasn't been having a good month in this area. The server space is where Athlon may have a big advantage since it uses the proven Alpha EV6 point to point high speed bus. It is possible that for some uses, a single Athlon server will outperform a quad Xeon or Coppermine server due to its use of the EV6 chipset architecture. Dan