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To: Joe NYC who wrote (43855)	1/4/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jozef, I think the reason Cyrix has yet to commit to designing their processors to interface to slot1 (assuming they have the legal right to do so) is that the bus interface is so different it would take a major redesign across the board. The out of order issue and completion of memory and I/O requests is so alien to the x86 bus design and processors built around it, that it would not be simply a drop in replacement of the bus interface unit. Is Cyrix ready to make this kind of a major architectural change? Do they want to contiune to support socket 7 as well? Do they have the resources to support 2 seperate design efforts? Should they spend the resources and then face the possible legal battles with Intel? I don't have the answers but you can bet that Cyrix/NSM has to consider these questions. EP

To: Joe NYC who wrote (43855)	1/4/1998 11:50:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Jozef - Re: "Intel is really asking consumers to pay extra to sign over their life to a monopoly provider. A tough sell" Intel is in business to make money - they do quite well at it. You, on the other hand, think it is a CPU manufacturer's job to sell CPUs at or below cost, lose money and in general peform along the lines of the Communist USSR. Look at what the no-profit motive has done for the USSR and Cyrix - notice the similarities? Notice that neither are in existence today? Paul