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To: Joe NYC who wrote (25733)	11/9/1997 11:35:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580049

Jozef, <I guess we must have been in the dark ages about 7 months ago, before introduction of P-II, since we were all stuck with (what are now) mid-range level processors that just don't "cut it".> Maybe you were stuck in the dark ages, but many of the rest of us were enjoying 4-way Pentium Pro compute servers. Like Yousef said, where are(were) the AMD and Cyrix servers? Why do you suppose there never were any? Why do you think there aren't any now? Are you entitled to a refund for your bug infested K6? techweb.com EP

To: Joe NYC who wrote (25733)	11/9/1997 11:48:00 PM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580049

Jozef, Re: "I guess we must have been in the dark ages about 7 months ago, before introduction of P-II ..." Let's try this one more time ... just like 7 months ago, there are NO AMD/Cyrix servers. The problem is that the PPro server is superior as compared to the other CPU's. Notice, we are not talking about the sub-$1000 market built by third tier companies (FrogLeap, CyberCrash, DingBat ...) that are using the AMD/Cyrix CPU's. One can't decide to selectively use a server for "less demanding" applications like you can with sub-$1000 computers. If you want to use serious 3-D graphics (Adobe PhotoShop ...), games (Quake ...) or FPU intensive applications (SUPREME, Prolith ...), then you need a high performance CPU (like the PII). If the AMD/Cyrix CPU's are such a good processor for servers, then why is AMD/Cyrix's market share lower for servers than for PC's?? Make It So, Yousef