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To: Elmer who wrote (101806)	4/3/2000 10:43:00 PM
From: Epinephrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573439

RE: <A wafer started in December of 1998? I don't think so. I think it is much more easily explained as simple mistake on your part. An honest mistake.> Elmer, I can't let my personal feelings get in the way of the fact that it is "possible" that Crazyoldman is somehow mistaken or that the date codes are inaccurate but I think those are pretty unlikely possibilities. I have seen the site describing the codes and it does not seem to be that difficult to read the dates from them. AMD uses those codes to track their product. The coding of the processors is most likely automated. Are you really suggesting that AMD could be so slack as to get the dates wrong by several months? I think that is a stretch. As I said before I think that AMD had to wait for the infrastructure to be ready. And yes I do think that they most likely did some stockpiling while waiting. I hope that Crazyoldman does take pictures of his Athlons and posts them on Geocities or some other anonymous web host. And I hope that when/if he does you have the grace to admit that it just might be possible that AMD did have Athlons much earlier than you previously thought. Regards, Epinephrine

To: Elmer who wrote (101806)	4/3/2000 11:06:00 PM
From: crazyoldman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573439

Elmer, Re: You have published the claim before on this thread but I think it defies reason. Only if one's mind is already fixed! You just can't bring yourself to believe that Jerry was stuffing his closet full of these things back in March of 1999. Just not possible??? How come I got three of them? Re: Typically the date printed on a package is the packaging date so your die would have to be from a wafer started in 1998. That's right! Amd is more of an engineering powerhouse than you can believe. Re: It wasn't until August that AMD introduced the AThlon at speeds up to 650MHz, not 700MHz. AMD introduced the 700MHz Athlon in October. You would have us believe AMD held onto it from early March until October and skipped the August intro? A wafer started in December of 1998? I'm just accurately reporting what I see. Re: I don't think so. I think it is much more easily explained as simple mistake on your part. An honest mistake. No mistake made here, the mistake made is on your end. I know as a PHUDster you have brainwashed yourself, but the New Day is here! This will come as a shock to you, but try to imagine what Jerry has stored away in his Dresden Closet. There might even be a bunch of 1.6 GHz copper Athlons amongst a whole bunch of 1.8 Ghz copper Athlons. The wrath of Dresden production awaits you PHUDster.