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

To: Brian Hutcheson who wrote (40484)	10/30/1998 9:36:00 PM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1586268

Brian, I couldn't agree more about business PCs flying off the shelves between now and 12/99. And I've had an awful lot of secretarial/clerical staff query me on the phone about "FINALLY getting a PC for their kid(s)." 1999 is going to be a KILLER year for PC sales. Hold onto your hats guys ... this is gonna be great fun! And if AMD actually has the K6-3 in warehouses (as some have told me), Intel will be sucking dust by Spring. 2000 may be a tad slow but in 2001, genuinely quick 'Net access will be sufficiently universal to kill the old line about "any old PC is good enough to browse the Internet". In fact, it will take GBs of free disk space, tons of RAM and a whole lot of processor power to handle what you will be able to grab from a fat-pipe in just a year or two. I was the first guy who called AMD's PR people and said "maybe you should rename your 486/133 and call it a "586". I was also one of the people who called CYRX PR and suggested that they abandon their "6x86" name. When they come in late in hurts. But when they hit the mark like AMD apparently is ready to do ... you congratulate engineers and investors alike. Because, they were right even when no one believed in them. Craig