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To: Stuart C Hall who wrote (8208)	10/14/1998 1:35:00 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

PS. Other than the chimp, I like 3Dfx's website much better than nVidia's. It's an orangutan ;D) Sun Tzu P.S. They should have added some catchy phrases. I did not bother to download the sound drivers, were they any good?

To: Stuart C Hall who wrote (8208)	10/14/1998 10:24:00 AM
From: John Finley	Respond to of 16960

That isn't a chimp. It's a greenatang! <g> JF

To: Stuart C Hall who wrote (8208)	10/14/1998 9:40:00 PM
From: Frank Sheridan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 16960

RE: The new web site at 3dfx.com See The Green Monkey. See The Green Monkey Wave Bye-Bye. Wave Bye-Bye To Your Investment. Bye-Bye. Bye-Bye. So, this is their idea of marketing? Makes me want to run right out and buy me a new 3-D accelerator card. Right after I schedule that appointment with my dentist for very painful root canal work. I've been out long enough to be able to buy into this stock again (as far as taxes go), but for the life of me I just cannot find any compelling reason to buy into any player in the 3-D accelerator market. Question: if Intel, AMD, and National / Cyrix make chips with 5-6 million transistors on them and sell them for over $100 each(microprocessors), how can a company that makes chips with 4-5 million transistors each (3-D accelerator chips) sell them for an average of $25 each and get ahead as far as profits go? It just seems like anybody in this area is rather handicapped as far as the marketplace goes. You have to build some ungodly powerful chip using several millions of transistors and then you get to sell them into a marketplace that says that chips like this are worth about $25 each. What a rotten market to play in. Anybody got some useful input about my concerns out there? (And don't say that memory chips have millions of xstrs and sell for cheap - giant arrays don't count.) Regards.