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To: Paul Engel who wrote (27047)	12/22/1997 6:44:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579872

Paul; I do recall some of the last gasp 486's the ones at 120 Mhx being able to give a good run to the early Pentiums, however the Pentium soon moved ahead. Will the same state apply with AMD, Cyrix, etc where their latest pentium offerings are better than the low end Pentium II. It seem we do in fact have that situation. With AMD et al locked out of the slot 1 mechanism, they might just run a parallel course using newtech to beat the slot 1 questionable virtues. Bill

To: Paul Engel who wrote (27047)	12/23/1997 12:15:00 AM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1579872

<I suspect they got beat in the craft of making faster ones and did not keep optimizing the 386/486 faster> <Yes, you are right. AMD and Cyrix built faster 486's than Intel so Intel stopped building 486's. And since the Pentiums weren't faster thna the 486's, AMD and Cyrix eventually put Intel out of the CPU business.> Yes, that's the way I remember it happening too! What ever happened to Intel after that? Did they keep making those stupid watches while AMD went on to glory and riches? If only Intel could have made a faster 386, who knows where they might be today? But them, they didn't and AMD took over the market with such successfull products such as the K5 and K6. Sure wish I had a crystal ball back then. I would have bought AMD and rode it all the way to new highs. EP