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To: Charles R who wrote (98010)	3/11/2000 12:28:00 PM
From: milo_morai	Respond to of 1570988

Welcome back!------All hail AMD! March 11, 2000 All hail AMD! The Athlon partisans can enjoy a long, cold smirk at Intel's expense -- again. This week, AMD was the first to announce and release a 1,000-MHz PC processor. That's 1 GHz -- "one gigahertz" -- in the electro-techno- metric system we all use now. Intel followed up with its own announcement just days later, but the top-speed Pentium III won't be broadly available until July at the earliest. AMD will sell its chips to all comers in April, so AMD is actually beating Intel by months. In the meantime, you can order 1-GHz PCs now from a handful of large vendors. Unless you're a speeds-and-feeds nut, you don't need to pay close attention to every chip advance. (There are too many of them!) But this week is a milestone, the likes of which we won't see again. If you ever plan to buy a new computer or game machine, take a minute to find out what's happening now and what comes next. It won't hurt a bit. 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To: Charles R who wrote (98010)	3/11/2000 12:30:00 PM
From: Scot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570988

Chuck and Thread, I was on amazon.com this morning and checked out AMD's purchase circle, where the most commonly purchased books from a single domain are listed. Thought you'd get a kick out of the top 5: 1. Agp System Architecture (PC System Architecture Series) by Dave Dzatko, et al 2. High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic by Howard W., Ph.D. Johnson, Martin, Ph.D. Graham 3. PCI System Architecture, Fourth Edition (PC System Architecture Series) by Tom Shanley, et al 4. Learning Perl (2nd Edition) by Randal L. Schwartz, et al 5. How to Make Money in Stocks : A Winning System in Good Times or Bad by William J. O'Neil(Preface)