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To: Joey Smith who wrote (67715)	11/2/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: John Koligman	Respond to of 186894

Evergreen announces upgrade board from older Pentiums to Celeron/AMD chips... Evergreen Tech Unveils a Device To Upgrade PCs to Celeron Chips By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Evergreen Technologies Inc. said it has devised a way for computer users to upgrade their machines from older Pentium microprocessors to Intel Corp.'s newest Celeron chips. Closely held Evergreen announced Monday it will begin selling an Eclipse PCI upgrade kit that fits into a typical add-in socket, known as a PCI card, in a personal computer. The kit could include the newest components such as an Intel 333-megahertz Celeron microprocessor and 64 megabytes of random-access memory. The kit can also be upgraded to a K6-2 microprocessor produced by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Normally, it is impractical and technical unfeasible to upgrade an older Pentium because the Celeron chips use a different kind of main system board. But based on a patent-pending technology, Evergreen found a way to upgrade the processor by changing the add-on cards rather than the main system board, said a company spokeswoman. The user simply leaves the old main board in the machine and installs the new card within minutes. Instead of throwing away an old system, many users will be able to upgrade to a new 333-megahertz Celeron chip with 64 megabytes of memory for as little as $350, the spokeswoman said.

To: Joey Smith who wrote (67715)	11/2/1998 3:32:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Joey, thanks for the article on eight way and above servers. I particularly like the part below. Gee, I thought the only thing that mattered in selecting a chip to build a system, according to some competitors' cheerleaders, was Megahertz. NOT. Dell and IBM plan to emphasize manageability, reliability, and serviceability of their servers, according to company officials. The infrastructure for the above machine features is designed just with Intel chips in mind. No others need apply. Landesk for manageability and the lowest FIT rate in the industry, by far, for reliability are two of the first things the server vendors will look at. That narrows it to just one vendor. Tony