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To: jcholewa who wrote (55656)	9/17/2001 4:27:44 PM
From: tcmay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"> I thought we were trying to stay a little on topic? At > least financial? "Apologies, apologies. But it was sort of on topic. The post was a plea specifically talking about how we need to cool our jets in the AMD/Intel discussion, since the resumption of conversation seems to be immediately leading towards conflict. The Muslim thing was an allusion." Utter, fatuous nonsense. AMD's lack of fiscal strength as a result of their decision to move away from their traditional areas of strength (microcontrollers, bipolar, military) in favor of taking on Intel in the PC mainstream market IS on-topic! What could be _more_ on-topic? Oh, I see, this is a _cheerleading_ group, and pointing out that Jerry blew it and AMD is likely going to be a pile of rubble is "off topic." "Cool our jets in the AMD/Intel discussion" while the AMD cheerleaders have been bragging for two years about what a great game machine the Athlon makes? Well, it seems that while AMD was goosing up its Quakemarks benchmarks, because it figured the only market was indulgent Yuppie parents buying little Sid Vicious his own 1.4 GHz Quake machine, Intel was covering its bases with Xeons, servers, MP, IA-64, and mil-spec systems for the major aerospace companies. Now that little Sid Vicious is being told to forget about the new game machine this year, AMD is in a world of hurt. --Tim May