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To: Tony Viola who wrote (48692)	2/24/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Tony - Re: "" please don't call it a kludge!" Sorry, but that term is appropriate - and I wasn't the first to use it. As a technical guy, you know that kludges can be quite satisfactory for getting the job done. Covington appears to be just that - a "quick & dirty" vehicle for getting a Slot 1 device into the low cost PC market while Intel is working on a better technical solution - Mendocino. As for your debugging efforts, Covington should prove quite adequate. Gordon Moore used to have a clever saying - "Not everything worth doing is worth doing well". I think Covington is such an example. Paul