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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (28343)	2/6/1998 1:06:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571926

Looks like the street is speaking to AMD.... You don't wanna talka to us... We gonna sella your stock...! Jim

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (28343)	2/6/1998 2:56:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Respond to of 1571926

Kevin, "The window of opportunity is always open to challengers with better technology." As history has demonstrated to us time after time, Intel always have better technology suitable to their business plan. What I am talking about is not just whose chips can run faster and cooler but also who can produce at what quantity and what cost. "Why do you think Intel is killing x86 and moving ahead to Merced?" X86 is archaic and clearly inferior to other younger architectures. But since the vast majority of the software base run off x86, you need to migrate to something better gradually. Merced's dual instruction set would suit this purpose. It is the Messiah you are looking for to guide us (computer users) to a higher level. "Too bad IBM was bogged down with PowerPC--it might have come up with this strategy on its own." IBM management did not understand the issue of software-backwards-compatibility. John.