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To: Elmer who wrote (119583)	7/6/2000 9:52:39 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579092

Elmer, My personal theory is that the Athlon is SMP broken. This would explain why you don't see any used with Alpha EV6 boards + new BIOS. Interesting theory, worthy of a top FUDster of the thread. I guess it would hold some water if single Athlon worked in Alpha board. Joe

To: Elmer who wrote (119583)	7/6/2000 10:13:01 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1579092

Elmer, Well, AMD is new to the SMP capable game and remember at the start there were few mobos? Well after the Athlon showed it's kickass capability wrt the P-III the mobos came in numbers. We have the parallel situation, however the server community is ultraconservative. Even if there was a chipset as well as mobos for sale when the Athlon first came out that did 2, 4 and 8 way SMP that conservative group would still be qualifying the Athlon....some say it takes a year or more. Now when the chipset emerges and mobos are made then that year will start. Some say this Sept will see the first chipsets and SMP mobos. There will be a number of early adopters and this will grow with time and by the time it is fully qualified we wiill probably see a similar share of that market go to AMD as has gone in the single CPU market. Oh, the prices will drop for the Intel products, drastically, or this process will accelerate. Bill