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To: Monica Detwiler who wrote (66638)	12/30/2001 3:32:04 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Respond to of 275872

Monica, Re: <Well - did ya?> You aren't John Wayne. Not even Pewee Herman. tgpntdr

To: Monica Detwiler who wrote (66638)	12/30/2001 5:08:16 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"And another good point is that AMD lost money in every year that they participated in Socket 7." Yep, as did every other participant in that market. Now it might have had something to do with the way that Intel priced the Celerons to squeeze the other companies, and priced the PII to actually make money... "And then AMD had to abandon Socket 7 because it was a dead end socket." After they upgraded the spec to Super Socket 7, which was good to 500MHz or so, pretty close to doubling the speed. AMD could have likely squeezed some additional performance out of Socket 7, but they were moving to the Athlons by that time and that would have meant having a Socket 7 and an EV-6 version. EV-6 was a better choice for the future. I won't ask if you had considered these things, we all know you didn't...