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To: Investor A who wrote (3170)	12/25/1997 11:17:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

FuchiWu-RayW-Sherlie-InvestorA, Nice to see that you have finally come up for air. You and Albert must be enjoying that gift Yousef sent you <ggg>. The links you posted were once again up to your typical brilliant standards. So nice to know that you are out there keeping up the good work. Your Pal, Elmer

To: Investor A who wrote (3170)	12/26/1997 10:35:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 6843

"Patched" P-II "microcode" slows down benchmarks: aopen.com.tw Business Winstone97 goes down 0.7 point, CPUmark32 goes down from 728 to 696, CPUmark16 goes down from 538 to 526,.... As I was thinking before, the "patch" seems to disable some flawed instructions and makes a software workaround slowing down the code execution. Nice job and nice hype on Intel side... And remember, the Pentium-II FLAG "errata" cannot be corrected by this kludge. However, we should not under-estimate the power of Intel-$$$ and their deceptive and fraudulent marketing tactics. In the past they were able to sell 8086 as fully comparible with 8080 while it was not. And were able to p*ss off the clearly superior Motorola's 86000 with this brain-damaged 8086/88. I hope this time, with Penrium-I/II/?? perfprmance lag, it will be not so easy. Regards, Ali