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

To: Yousef who wrote (37826)	9/30/1998 10:26:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1571686

"make it so" <if there is going to be a charge, AMD should cover that cost.> Why would AMD do it? If you don't like how the 350MHz processor operates under an obsolete system, just do not use the obsolete OS. Use any other, all other work just fine - NT3, NT4, NT5, W98, Linux, QNX, OS/2, FreeBSD,... name it. I am not sure about Windows 3.1 though :) And there is always a workaround - just run the same CPU within the Microsoft safe range - at 300MHz or below, and experience no problem. Or just do not risk with newer advanced products. I don't think AMD would suffer much from tiny sales into the grey CPU market - the demand for 350 and 400MHz is huge from OEMs who have all these patches/new VxDs. With warranty.