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

To: Paul Engel who wrote (100862)	3/30/2000 12:05:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571785

Re: Microsoft didn't SHAFT AMD - AMD LOST the bid to Intel... You mean all I got out of all that text was a lousy 60 points? It's not fair Paul, you're deliberately with holding points from me! You gave Chic got a hundred points in 6 lines! Sheesh! Dan PS - it's all speculation, but I still believe that Bill extracted some very tough terms in exchange for that design win, and I suspect that deep down, you do too. Intel can afford such terms, though. Right now, AMD can't. Question is, is Bill an honest politician: will he stay bought? 6 months from now, AMD may be in a position to make another run at that contract, and Gates may be sufficiently pissed off about the Intel-Linux RaRa teams to give them the chance. Either way, the winner gets a lot of brownie points but loses money.