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To: StockDoc who wrote (33152)	6/5/1998 5:53:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572212

Re: "fast voice recognition word processing combinations, clear movie-like video for moving images (which really rudimental at this point)" Technically, 3DNow would be great at either of those things. Unfortunately, the software doesn't yet exist--3DNow won't impact much besides a few specific computer games until DirectX 6 is released in a couple months. My opinion is that to run normal business applications, you don't really need anything faster than a 233 MHz chip. Right now, gaming is the biggest segment of the consumer market that requires more CPU power--there's a BIG diference between Quake 2 on a 233 MHz box and Quake 2 on a 333 MHz 3DNow-enabled box. On the business end, if you're doing CAD or you're using speech recognition to dictate, more processor power might be useful too. Kevin

To: StockDoc who wrote (33152)	6/5/1998 5:57:00 PM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572212

AMD Book signing. Hey Paul, you should go over to Fry's tomorrow, bet you could have a lot of fun! ;-) biz.yahoo.com