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To: Paul Engel who wrote (62104)	8/8/1998 4:12:00 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul- I can believe it. I've been trying to buy a PII-300 since the last price cuts. Nada. Finally bought K6-266 MMX. Check out the In-Stocks for PII-300: shopper.com Harvey

To: Paul Engel who wrote (62104)	8/8/1998 4:21:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Thanks, Paul (Re: "Where Are The Chips?") Re : "We make and service commercial company systems. Many Fortune 500 companies we service still use 486 DOS-based computers in many applications." Those Fortune 500 companies better upgrade their 486's to Pentium family before 1/1/2000, if they have any date dependent programs running. I like the many word here, coupled with Fortune 500! I wonder if AMD and Cyrix chips/bios' have been tested for Y2K compliance. An engineer did it here (work) for Pentium and Pentium II...squeaky clean. Tony

To: Paul Engel who wrote (62104)	8/8/1998 4:31:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 186894

Paul, RE:"Tony - Chip Shortages Here's a report from a PC builder in Canada that cannot "get" AMD or Intel CPUs. {=================================} techweb.com August 10, 1998, Issue: 695 Section: Editor's Note/Letters Where Are The Chips? With improved chip speeds, can a human being really notice the difference between a chip with Level 2 cache and a chip without Level 2 cache ("Intel To Ship Chip Early," July 27, p. 34)? If the answer is no, then who cares? We make and service commercial company systems. Many Fortune 500 companies we service still use 486 DOS-based computers in many applications. When we order CPUs, we don't have a choice anymore- we buy what's available. I suggest that chipmakers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices need some competition. Right now, we can't find a CPU in Canada to build a new computer with. It's availability that worries us, not CPU speed! Ken Gerelus Owner Platinum Data Products Calgary, Alberta Copyright r 1998 CMP Media Inc. {=======================================} I have trouble believing all this, but I secretly hope it's true - true in the sense that DEMAND has suddenly exceeded supply - not that Intel has had production problems." I totally agree with you. I hope there is a shortage of chips because that means that AMD is selling all they can produces and then some. And man, believe me, that's a whole lot of chips baybee! Jim