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To: Tom W. who wrote (26182)	11/26/1997 11:24:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1585485

Tom, <I would think Jerry Sanders and company would be trumping up the fact that 266s are shipping already.> Why would the company want to do this? The K6 demand vastly exceeds supply. Product acceptance is more than good. Roadmap is straight and clear. It is Intel who needs to trump up on every corner about overpriced but underperforming and buggy products in attempt to hype the falling stock.

To: Tom W. who wrote (26182)	11/27/1997 9:29:00 PM
From: Harve Wolfe	Respond to of 1585485

Tom, Positive K6-266 plainly printed in the description, didn't realize it was that significant. Performance seemed very comparable to the Pentium II-300 siting on the shelf next to it, at least during the 5 to 10 minutes I spent playing around with them. The stealth black Pentium II had all the hotest bells and whistles on it, the K6 was more plain vanilla. I suppose there could have been a typo on the product description. That seems rather unlikely. The clerk was very excited about it and surprising well informed. We discussed at length the Cyrix merger and it's implications for AMD/IBM. I was excited to see a 266 early in the Xmas season. For what it's worth! H.