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

To: Yousef who wrote (27112)	12/23/1997 9:58:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573004

Thanks, Yousef. I hope it is 2 speed bins and closing. This bifurcation(multifurcation?) in the pathways of the assorted CPUs that run Win95/NT will be quite a race, IMO. I remain unconvinced that the slot 1 is anything more than a fenced back yard for Intel to play in. I recall the lineup of the rich and famous who came into IBMs little fenced off yard(Microchannel) for the same reason many years ago. Someone(the consumer) forgot to feed them, and quite a few perished and the rest were sorely weakened. And now Intel will make a low end P II with no slot 1, therein hangs a tale. IBM should have done that, run two horses in the race, in fact they did make a late start ISA product after the writing was on the wall. Now Intel does the same thing?. Does that mean that they, like IBM before them, see that their strategy has flaws? But Intel has seen it before there has been a huge time delay(unlike IBM, who waited too long) and has startd a parallel horse close after the first. I am reminded of the pentium Pro, as another failed horse. So it is not as easy for Intel as they all think. MSFT has the market far more to itself than Intel has. Have a good holiday season, Yousef, Petz and all. Bill Bill