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To: Joe NYC who wrote (85679)	7/24/2002 12:07:10 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Joe, Re: "chips in hands of a lot of hands of hardware enthusiasts could uncover potential bugs in the chip" LOL. Sort of like a Microsoft beta release? Too bad spinning silicon costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, while updating a software glitch only requires a recompile. I'd also like to see what the bug report is like for those "beta" samples. What kind of debug dump file could be generated from a consumer PC for AMD to look at and determine the problem? How are the engineers supposed to understand how to fix their CPU when the user reports an application hang? Are they going to ship logic analyzers and ITPs to all these enthusiasts as well? wbmw

To: Joe NYC who wrote (85679)	7/24/2002 12:44:18 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Joe, Re: It could be a limited "pilot" release, which I speculated in the past would be a great idea. Wouldn't a pilot launch take the steam out of Hammer's launch? I guess the public (and review sites) would be somewhat underwhelmed if the first iteration of Hammer would be only marginally faster than a Thoroughbred and got beaten by a Pentium 4 (as suggested by the 2400+ rating). So the first impression for Hammer would be negative and that could bode badly for the "real" launch. I think it will be better if AMD will launch Hammer with a "bang". Andreas