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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (77696)	10/29/1999 12:44:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574039

Hi Paul Engel; Re Do you SEE a problem with your LOGIC ? If you will take the trouble to read my posts carefully, you will find that I never wrote that Intel applied any pressure to anybody. I was only reporting what AMD said. * OFF TOPIC * I am kind of disappointed that the mysterious harasser didn't send me any PMs. Apparently this was because I've been too light on you. So here goes... It probably comes as quite a shock to you that Intel isn't performing as well as it once did. In fact, it is the nature of things in this world to mature, grow old, and finally die. This is something that you are starting to face yourself, something that you probably don't want to think about. It is painful to think back to the man that you once were, and to imagine all the things that might have been. Those times were in the past, they are gone forever, and will never return again. The times when you were powerful, and people listened to you are no more. Now, in the twilight of your days, you spend your time basically frothing on a silly AMD thread. It's pretty sad. Companies grow old and silly also. But companies have a form of immortality that humans can never have. It turns out that there have been joint stock companies that survived the better part of a thousand years. (They started as the companies that owned grain mills.) The reason that companies have a chance at immortality is that their personnel is replaceable. As the people grow old, and inefficient, they are replaced by younger employees, and the company marches on. AMD has seen its better years, of that there is no doubt. But Intel is showing the unmistakable signs of senility, similar to the traits that you are showing, in some ways. Now AMD is being reborn, and Intel is sinking slowly into retirement. But I wouldn't worry too much about Intel, they will, no doubt, out live most of us. -- Carl