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To: greg nus who wrote (75182)	10/12/1999 4:08:00 PM
From: Burt Masnick	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573427

I saw two adds for Athlon based computers on Long Island within the usual weekend blitz of computer adds this past Sunday. One was for a single model and the other was for a range of Athlon based PCs. I would guesstimate that Athlon adds took up approximately 2% of the overall PC offering adds this past weekend. Most of the adds were for the usual - IBM, Compaq, HP, Aopen, etc featuring celeron, P3. Also, the previous weekend I saw an Athlon based machine running at Costco. No one was looking at it - or any other PC running an "attract" screen.

To: greg nus who wrote (75182)	10/12/1999 4:09:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 1573427

Greg, So, Barrett is suddenly speedless, as the Athlpox is apon him. Speedless, huh? We could say something about what could possibly be affecting your posts, i.e., spelling, etc.

To: greg nus who wrote (75182)	10/12/1999 4:19:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573427

Greg, <So, Barrett is suddenly speedless, as the Athlpox is apon him.> Read his quote again, Greg: Barrett also predicted that Intel will ship a 1-GHz chip in the second half of 2000, but that increasingly, speed alone is not the most important thing in chip performance, and other factors, such as floating-point calculations and graphics acceleration, are also key. Gee, 1 GHz a year from now, huh? Isn't that the same target that AMD is gunning for? And to think that Intel won't need copper interconnect to get there, either. Plus, it's plainly obvious to me that Barrett is not trying to spread anti-Athlon FUD here. He mentions important factors like floating-point and graphics acceleration, two factors that could be considered Athlon's strong points. If Barrett was running scared of Athlon, he wouldn't be making statements like these. Barrett knows better than that. (Although I'm sure some of you AMD zealots would disagree.) Tenchusatsu