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To: Charles R who wrote (87113)1/14/2000 12:54:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572580
 
Folks, Gateway advertising Athlon system on TV

No way, right? That's what I would think, but apparently it happened tonight. From tveyes.com

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This is very good. Gateway has always advertised the Intel logo in their ads. As far as I know, AMD doesn't help offset some of the the cost of advertising the AMD brand like Intel does.

PB, you got your answer!

tveyes.com

Thanks to AthlonK75 for the heads up.