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To: boris_a who wrote (106941)	4/20/2000 8:57:00 AM
From: nixtox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574001

Welcome on board, Boris. You are right, owning AMD is entertaining. And you picked the best board too... ;-) Good luck. Nick

To: boris_a who wrote (106941)	4/20/2000 10:07:00 AM
From: eplace	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574001

boris_a welcome to the thread. Congratulations on your AMD winnings and good luck with future investments. As a long time options player, just want to mention to be careful. AMD has made options trading seem easy, but their are always pitfalls in the options game. If you do trade, I recommend going as far out into the future as you can. Even minor swings in any stock and the market in general can make a "sure thing" turn sour very quickly if you are too close to expiration. Once again welcome and good luck. Regards Ed P.

To: boris_a who wrote (106941)	4/20/2000 11:07:00 AM
From: crazyoldman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574001

Hello Boris, Welcome to the AMD thread! Re: I'm a long time follower of AMD (being a student, I remember their clean processor design - cascadable 29x- impressed me. The same time I had to code assembler stuff for the "brain damaged" 80286) I used to write a lot of 80286 assembly code myself, it made a significant difference in performance in those "hot spots" of an executable. Super powerful processors such as the Athlon, more complete and optimized compiler libraries and huge memory addressing space have removed much of the necessity to code assembly for general purpose programs. Still, the compilers will never beat the human being coding assembly for absolute execution speed or efficiency of resource usage. I still use assembly language myself but only a little now. Once again, it's good to have you on board! Kindest regards, CrazyMan

To: boris_a who wrote (106941)	4/20/2000 11:58:00 AM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574001

Boris, Welcome. And I nominate you for the most inspiring first post!!! regards, Kash

To: boris_a who wrote (106941)	4/20/2000 1:12:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574001

Boris, Welcome to the thread. Pravin.

To: boris_a who wrote (106941)	4/20/2000 1:25:00 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574001

Dear Boris_a: Hi there! I also have an OLD CPU! It is an 8080 in the original ceramic package. I got it around 1975 or 1976. The oldest machine I assembled on was an IBM 1401. Much of my assembly was on the uCPUs like 8080, Z80, 6800, and 6502. Now I remember, I did do some work in 1983-84 on the AMD 29000 on a Stand Alone Word Processor (that's all it did). Welcome to the thread. Pete

To: boris_a who wrote (106941)	4/20/2000 1:31:00 PM
From: Goutam	Respond to of 1574001

Boris, < I'm a long time follower of AMD (being a student, I remember their clean processor design - cascadable 29x- impressed me. The same time I had to code assembler stuff for the "brain damaged" 80286) > Welcome to the thread. I enjoyed reading your posts on JCs message board, whenever I visited that board. I did lot code in assembly code for various processors (including 80286) when I was a Hardare/Firmware guy, but never had the chance to work on AMD 29X bitslice stuff. < I hope I can contribute from time to time and my English is kind of understandable. > I'm thrilled to see you here, because I know how good contributor you have been on JCs thread. You English is way better than mine. < Special thanks to Goutama for his EPS (where I failed luckily) and "Market Watch" work. > You are welcome. < And of course to JC and his excellent web-site. > JC da Man!!! Best regards, Goutama