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To: Ali Chen who wrote (32130)	4/23/1998 3:15:00 PM
From: Bruce Russell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583406

Breaking news: DEC licenses Alpha chip to AMD - per CNBC

To: Ali Chen who wrote (32130)	4/24/1998 12:48:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1583406

Ali - Re: ""I've had an identical problem. For the time being, two temp fixes are dos slowdown utilities and clocking the system speed back down. hope a better solution comes along soon." Good grief! The problem apparently is that the DOS programs are speed sensitive - having been written when processors were much slower and coded in such a way as to malfunction when the processor speeds up! That is indicative of extremely poor programming practices. And you, the great Ali, master of all things electrical, couldn't even figure out this simple problem! It's NOT A PENTIUM II PROBLEM! Paul