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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (75355)	10/13/1999 2:47:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573075

Jim, From the Lost CIrcuits: ASUS Athlon 500-1000MHz lostcircuits.com

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (75355)	10/13/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573075

Continued... RE:"Interesting post from MS at Lost CIrcuits BB. By MS on Tuesday, October 12, 1999 - 09:09 pm: "Intel has instructed certain manufacturers not to ship Athlon boards except for a limited contingent that goes to a few system (er, brand) manufacturers. In one case it is 10,000 boards, in other words, the old blackmail is back. Almost looks like I will have to host a few more BIOS files in the near future"".. Interestingly, ABIT has posted a release saying they aren't going to make any K7 motherboards because they (K7s) aren't condusive to the "retail" market at this time. That K7s are good only for the OEM market at this time and ABIT doesn't deal too much in the OEM market. I wish I could find the link... At any rate does this all sound like a load of crapola to anyone else? Sounds like there might be a deal between Intel and Abit... Jim