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To: Elmer who wrote (80180)	11/17/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571433

RE:"What I can't understand is why Compaq would pass up the ultra new, ultra advanced Athlon and go and release it's new workstations based on that old Intel Xeon CuMine. I thought Compaq hated Intel and couldn't wait for the chance to use AMD's new Athlon. Why didn't they use the Athlon instead of the CuMine Xeon? Do you think that fact that the Intel processor posted the fastest SpecInt95 scores ever recorded* might have something to do with it?"... You're sounding more and more like Paul, what a bore...

To: Elmer who wrote (80180)	11/17/1999 1:29:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1571433

Elmer - Re: ". Why didn't they use the Athlon instead of the CuMine Xeon? Do you think that fact that the Intel processor posted the fastest SpecInt95 scores ever recorded* might have something to do with it?" Maybe. Maybe Compaq wanted more than 800,000 high end CPUS this quarter as well - and AMD is only scheduled to make about that many AthWIPES (Oh, I Know - AMD WAS JUST SANDBAGGING !!!!!) Paul

To: Elmer who wrote (80180)	11/17/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571433

Elmer - Re: "Athlon was going to change the processor landscape forever. Now who stands at the top? When they were supposed to be relegated to the scrap heap of history Intel stands alone with the fastest SpecInt95 scores ever recorded... Simply amazing....." Hey....I haven't seen Tejerk post one of his "AThWIPE - the FASTEST PROCESSOR iN THE WORLD" posts in a while. Maybe he'll do one just for Old Time's Sake - as a GAG joke ! Paul