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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (34900)	7/21/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: Majic-	Respond to of 1571931

Non Upgradable Slot Sorry I ment non-upgradable slot. If you see how many slot's intel is planning to make, all incompatible with each other, all with minor or big variations in pin layout, color, smell etc :p I'll try to remember witch one's the're planning : 1)Slot 1 2)Slot 1 100 MHz 3)Slot 2 4)"Socket 9"but-not-compatible-with-socket-7-or-8-for-mendocino 5)slot for i32, 6)slot for Merced (i64 or something) all this in less than 2 years. Why not produce a cost effective and upgradable solution at once ??? AMD, Cyrix, Rise Tech. and IDT are all going to use Socket7+, until way in 1999, AMD will bring out K-7 with "slot 1" (actually an alpha slot), Cyrix will use socket 7 until the Cheyenne is out, witch will use a proprietary slot. So everyone is changing slowly from socket 7+ to another, faster slot or socket, but hey, AMD and Cyrix will _stay_ and use those busses for way longer than Intel is planning to with it's socket 1 or 2. Greetz, Michael da Kota , FHWL.