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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (27545)	6/18/1998 8:09:00 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Respond to of 33344

Pravin, Intel just made the job bigger. Not only does NSM have to implement the P6 bus and reverse engineer the Slot 1 but now they will have to package chips in two different ways. Assuming Intel is up to its old tricks, you have to figure that Mendocino without Slot 1 will have some tiny differences. And you can be sure that Intel will bundle their graphics chip, mobo chipset and processors in some kind of "bundle" deal (Taiwan mobo makers recently reported Intel was dumping graphics chips as part of just this kind of deal). Why NSM would choose to compete with a 66MHz P6-bus chip is beyond me. As long as you don't need Slot 1 and the Intel brand, Socket 7 is a better choice than yet another proprietary Intel design. Particularly one with a 66MHz bus. Craig