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To: d e conway who wrote (2249)	11/17/1997 2:26:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Dan - Re: " The colossis Intel will be totally free again to trample us with their monopoly and their stuff-it-down-your-throat-soak-'em-for-all-they're-worth mentality." You are displaying childish emotion, totally devoid of facts. Stop your whining for a few minutes and plot out CPU Performance vs. Price from 1980 to today. You will find a continual increase in Performance and declining prices for CPUs and PCs over this time period, whether AMD was in or out of the market. You will also see Intel's record of innovation - adding MMUs to the 286 for protected mode performance, stretching the x86 architecture from 16 to 32 bits while maintaining COMPLETE x86 compatibility (80386), integrating an on-chip L1 cache AND an FPU to a 32 bit CPU (80486), developing power savings modes (SMM - 80486SL), developing superscalar x86 product for 1,2 or 3 simultaneous instruction execution (Pentium), incorporation of on board SMP and glueless support of 4 CPUs in SMP mode (Pentium Pro). Then list all of AMD's technical innovations. Remember - Intel invented the Microprocessor without any help or competition from AMD. And what was AMD doing at that time? The same thing they are doing today - trying to be a second-source for products that they did not develop. AMD has not changed much over the years. Your tears are wasted. Paul