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To: Paul Engel who wrote (26859)	5/23/1998 8:34:00 PM
From: Badshah J.Wazir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Paul, You mean it is a gamble. Ya, Cyrix's fan have some of that. Badshah

To: Paul Engel who wrote (26859)	5/24/1998 12:15:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

RE:(Cyrix)"in the past has done NOTHING BUT LOSE MONEY on CPU sales!" Paul, Not true. There is evidence that Cyrix has done quite well on integrated CPU sales. That is why Brian Halla is focusing on PCOAC. He knows that he can kick Intel's rear by putting the whole motherboard on one die. Keep fiddling Nero.... Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (26859)	5/24/1998 12:35:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

RE:"You keep thinking Intel's success was an accident!" Paul, No it was the work of great engineering. For example: There was the day in 1980 when Moto 68000 marketing fed the IBM execs a bad lunch and lost the IBM PC contract to the massively inferior 8086. Then there was the 80286 which Bill Gates to described as "brain dead." By the time the 80386 came out the instruction set architecture had advanced almost to the level of the 68000. The 80486 was a huge winner because Intel successfully sued AMD for using Intel microcode in front of a clueless judge. The Pentium became wildly popular after it was discovered that it couldn't do math. The superior engineering was backed by thinly veiled threats to OEM's about the consequences of using Cyrix processors as an alternative. And to top it all off we now have Celery! My hat is off to the brilliant tradition of engineering at Intel. After all, if it wasn't for all of the miserable legacy junk in x86, lots of CPU designers would be out of work. Scumbria