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To: Roy F who wrote (23044)	8/17/1998 3:55:00 PM
From: Henry Eichorszt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

FROM MOTLEY FOOL-Electronics automatic test equipment and backplane assemblies maker Teradyne (NYSE: TER) gained $1 to $22 1/2 after saying that chip foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (NYSE: TSM) has bought "multiple" Catalyst test systems from the company. Chip yield management products company KLA-Tencor (Nasdaq: KLAC) added $1 to $29 1/8 on the news. Since back-end equipment demand is most predictive of increases in semiconductor wafer output, other semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment companies also went along for the ride this morning. Novellus Systems (Nasdaq: NVLS) advanced $2 3/8 to $38 3/4 and Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT) rose $1 3/16 to $32 5/16.

To: Roy F who wrote (23044)	8/17/1998 4:03:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Roy/all, [edited] the inimitable Cramer explains puts. "Pull up a futon and get ready for a long rewrite. I intend to teach you as much as I can about the art of buying puts without either boring you to tears or confusing you more than you may already be about puts. But I can't do it quickly. Puts don't lend themselves to off-handed instruction." fnews.yahoo.com Roy, thanks for the suit link. The last sentence... No one at Applied's Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters was available for comment. A switchboard operator said the company was on a routine shutdown for one week. GM

To: Roy F who wrote (23044)	8/17/1998 6:23:00 PM
From: Robert O	Respond to of 70976

Don't sneer at me as if I'm driving a new BMW, but regarding AG Associates suit against AMAT over certain alleged patent infringements note AG's market cap of $21 Million is less than 2% of AMAT's cash on hand! Does money matter in the face of what is purportedly "blind justice" for all? Ask O.J. P.s. I realize OJ won the criminal and lost the civil case and this is a civil case. Also, AMAT didn't murder anyone {except maybe me via the option market makers ;-O }