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To: Ali Chen who wrote (37231)	9/20/1998 2:27:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571782

Re: ""Intel won't say yet how fast the Katmai chips due late next year will run, but in a demonstration here, engineers cranked a Katmai chip up to 804 MHz -- at which point the online banking application it was running crashed." no longer exists in the current InfoWorld article! " ------------------- My response: Ali, you're full of it. here's the link infoworld.com It says, and I quote "Intel won't say yet how fast the Katmai chips due late next year will run, but in a demonstration here, engineers cranked a Katmai chip up to 804 MHz -- at which point the online banking application it was running crashed. " You are doing a "Petz". It only took me about 2 minutes to find this. Open your eyes, you're missing the show. Futhermore -- Ali wrote "It is hard to suspect the Intel stalwart (who first posted the the whole story on Intel thread, see above) in fabrication of these data. The only explanation would be that Intel forced the InfoWorld Electric to withdraw the phrase." The only explanation is that Ali is an idiot. EP

To: Ali Chen who wrote (37231)	9/20/1998 5:12:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571782

ALi - Re: ""twice as fast as non-existent processor, how fast it would be?"" That makes it 3x as fast at the K7 - another non-existant processor. Paul