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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (57831)	10/9/2001 2:15:17 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Since there is nothing going on tonight on AthlonXP front, I found this story notable: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tajikistan Opens Airspace to U.S. DUSHANBE, 12:02 p.m. EDT— Tajikistan said on Monday it was prepared to allow U.S. forces to use its air bases for military actions in Afghanistan, some 24 hours after their first strikes in the country. "The Republic of Tajikistan has declared its readiness to open its airspace to the U.S. airforce and, should it prove necessary, its airports for carrying out measures against terrorism," a government statement said. This was the first such declaration by the central Asian republic, which has a 815-mile border with Afghanistan. Tajikistan had previously said only that it was ready to help the fight against "terrorism," without any specific measures. ------------------------------------------------------------------- I think this is extremely important it the conflict enters a second stage of ground war (by US and Northern alliance forces). This will allow US to fly tactical aircraft from much shorter distances, without the need to completely rely on Pakistan. It will also allow to fly AWACS planes to watch over the whole Afganistan, it will allow some fighters to be patrolling the air space of Afganistan, ready to shoot down any aircraft (with fleeing "target") Joe

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (57831)	10/9/2001 7:45:59 AM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

Wanna: yeah, looks like AMD is both a half step ahead (in terms of FSB) Right now, they're half a step behind. Since no one has introduced a dual-channel chipset, like the i850, it doesn't matter too much (the yet-to-appear nForce might be able to take advantage as the only chipset). For both AMD and Intel, it clearly looks like FSB speeds are outstripping single-channel memory speeds. I must take this at meaning that AMD intends to join Intel in dual-channel memory land. (Once Hammer rolls around, anyway, which looks to be quite a ways off, although I suspect we'll learn more next week at the µP Forum). -fyo

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (57831)	10/9/2001 8:35:34 AM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

You'll be happy to note that AMD has finally gotten around optimizing Windows Media Encoder. In true AMD style, the performance boost is quite significant, but the "software patch is not publicly available". Lol. How about releasing the damned patch, guys? Throw it out to every single website out there running benchmarks. NOW! athlonxp.amd.com -fyo