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To: tejek who wrote (112206)	5/23/2000 6:48:00 PM
From: crazyoldman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571208

Hello Ted, Re: The move to Socketed versions may or may not come with a bump or two but it will not be a derailment and the move to socket MUST be done. I don't see it being a "bigger problem" at all. Do you know something? Only that it will restrict sales and hinder AMD in its efforts to steal market share. I always envisioned the move to socket as a transition over a period of a couple of months (the slow summer months at that). I NEVER envisioned a situation were one day we would have the classic Athlon then the next day the classic was gone and in its place were the Duron/Tbird with total infrastructure support present. Remember that there will be classic Athlons coming of wafers in progress for the next couple of months, i.e. product to sell and the classic Athlon is a pretty darn good processor. In a perfect world we could hope that we could move to the socket processors without incident but we're still on planet earth. The day will come when AMD will have control over their own chipset (and possibly make their own motherboards) giving them the control they need but alas...not here yet. Perhaps I've missed something??? You've apparently expected this transititon to occur differently...maybe? Kindest regards, CrazyMan