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To: fyodor_ who wrote (18485)	11/9/2000 10:14:06 PM
From: niceguy767	Respond to of 275872

fyodor: "Now that's an endorsement if I ever saw one! I cannot - even in my wildest, most ludicrous dreams - imagine ANYONE having said that about ANY AMD platform before the K7. Sorry for the rantish nature of the post; like Paul I tend to get somewhat overexcited at times." No problem, fyodor...You are just a little ahead of your time...Others will twig, before long, to that which you already realize, that being, AMD does offer not only a viable but a superior alternative on a price/performance basis to what has been (past tense) until recently the status quo!!!

To: fyodor_ who wrote (18485)	11/10/2000 12:33:08 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

fyo, <AMD has NEVER had a full year with a good, competitive platform. NEVER. Not even in the 486 days...> You're forgetting about the pre-personal PC era. AMD's bit slice chips were used in dozens of minicomputers like DEC, Data General, Prime and many names you never heard of. AMD's parts always ran faster than the competition. Their stuff was bipolar low-power Schottky or "LS" for short. Jerry was CEO then too, and I recall that one year AMD was even voted to be the best company in the US to work for, a notch ahead of HP. Then the microprocessor "happened." Their high-speed reputation made them a natural for a choice from Intel as second source, but eventually Intel got tired of that arrangement... and the rest is history. Petz