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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Xpiderman who wrote (25715)	11/9/1997 4:33:00 PM
From: greg nus	Respond to of 1579259

Xy Zhao, I'm using Intel "Quick Web" technonogy. An upgrade offer via Sprint. signup download and go faster internet at lightening speed. MY pentium100 works like a pentium 300. Amasing stuff all downloaded.

To: Xpiderman who wrote (25715)	11/9/1997 5:09:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1579259

Xy Zhao, <better luck next time. Ha ha!"> Before posting such a nonsence with many skips, you must learn first to distinguish between a technical information and a wishful thinking of clown columnist. The whole message follows: "But recent revelations point to Intel's ability to upgrade the processor microcode on the fly with a special encrypted system. Is it possible that by using this upgrade technology Intel can add the new MMX instructions after the fact? Imagine this from the marketing side. You bring out MMX chips and move all users to MMX. Your competitors--AMD and Cyrix--add MMX to their chips and play along. You let everyone get used to MMX and make sure that AMD and Cyrix are fully ramped. Then you pull the rug out from under everyone with additional (and important) MMX instructions. Gee, guess what? Those of you who bought the Intel chips can make the upgrade now (possibly at no cost) with a simple download. And you poor suckers who bought a competitor's product--well, better luck next time. Ha ha!" zdnet.com You deliberately twisted the information and tried to present the columnist wishes as facts. What is the correct term for such behaviour, mister?