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To: reynoso who wrote (66642)	12/30/2001 4:59:18 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 275872

RE:"I think there have been some severe negative ramifications of this nomenclature system. PCs with AMD CPUs disappeared from most retail outlets in the USA almost simultaneously with the introduction of the new rating system. We're just lucky that the foreign markets are taking up the slack." Not sure about the nomenclature. Could be true though. I suspect boxmakers paniced, decided one platform (maybe didn't want to mess with PR ratings). Intel had the chips and AMD didn't have XPs so Intel sealed the Christmas deal. XPs seemed too chancy maybe, like you said. Jim