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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (30137)	3/24/1998 1:38:00 AM
From: Investor A	Respond to of 1576990

Kevin, But, Intel's success was not built on their better system performance at all! If people does really care about system performance, they would all choose Cyrix M1/M2 over Intel processors. In reality, it never happens in this way. Intel strength comes from "free copying", "misleading advertising" and "monopoly", etc. AMD, Cyrix or Apple simply could not complete with mighty Intel on these specialties. :((

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (30137)	3/24/1998 9:19:00 AM
From: Dennis Lauriston Elliott	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576990

Mac Os to X86 Kevin Could you provide some details about the Mac OS you say will run on a X86? I would be very interested to have such a system. BTW I upgraded an earlier computer to a 200 MHz K6 on a 66 MHz motherboard. I also found it necessary to use SCSI drives to transfer data between hard disks (lots of data). It is an excellent system. The new G3 system looks great but expensive. For what I think the average person needs it is going to be very difficult to compete with the AMD K6 family costwise. In my opinion most people including buisnesses would be better off by far with a K6 processor and putting the savings into additional memory. I am neither short nor long AMD but wish I was long. If the yield problem really is over, it is obvious AMD will take off like a rocket. Thanks ahead for the info. K6 User

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (30137)	3/24/1998 9:29:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576990

Kevin, going from a monster loss to a small profit inflects the stock price. More gains will be harder to come by. Intel suffers from overstock and competition. I wonder how good the cheap Apple will be?, if they make it too good it will parasitize sales of bigger better Apples, too bad and it will not be seen as a viable option. The Mac OS has been so slow in the past that faster chips have been needed. I suspect Byte benchmarks as they seem to have a benchmark for so many things you can pick one that makes your machine look better than another, especially cross platform. The real life bench mark is sales. Bill