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To: Dale J. who wrote (27807)	7/2/1998 9:04:00 PM
From: Investor A	Respond to of 33344

Dale, On the contrary, I think that Tom is just another Intel salesman. Tom over emphasizes the importance of Quake OS and Intel FPU. He helped Intel sell tons of inferior Intel processors to the innocent public. Have you noticed that Tom never mentions the importance to run office applications faster? Anyone with his acknowledgements took Quake frame rate (which is optimized for Pentium pipeline FPU) as the DOS benchmark is not to be taken as honest to the least. It seems that you haven't been updated properly with CPU industry news for a while. Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com users.aol.com

To: Dale J. who wrote (27807)	7/2/1998 9:53:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Dale, tomshardware is biased against Intel. I don't think that's accurate. Tom biased in favor of anything that will make his Quake run with higher frame rate, higher resolution, good quality of picture and fast. That's his single obsession, to exclusion of any other uses of computers. Also, money is no object for Tom. It's absolute performance that matters to him. He doesn't bother with things like price performance. Since PII is great for Quake, Tom loves it. AGP does nothing for Quake so Tom doesn't care about it. In fact, AGP doesn't do anything for any application. It's just a marketing gimmick. I guess one scenario where AGP could even remotely make any sense is in environment where 16 MB of memory was around $600. But these days, you can buy 512 MB of memory for that price. The new Matrox G200 will come with 8 MB SGRAM standard for about $150. For about $200, you will be able to get 16 MB version. You can store all the textures you want in this memory. And access to local memory (with 128bit path) much faster than AGP. Probably an order of magnitude faster than AGP. Joe