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To: mozek who wrote (12153)	11/9/1998 10:54:00 PM
From: Bearded One	Respond to of 74651

Your evaluation sounds reasonable, given the claims made by Intel about their NSP project. Of course, they also claimed that it would up the hardware requirements, which also comports with your eval. Anyway, it may have sucked, but lets hope for Microsoft's sake that they didn't threaten what McGready says they threatened. In retrospect, it might have been worth letting Intel make a fool of itself.

To: mozek who wrote (12153)	11/10/1998 1:20:00 AM
From: ed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Intel's goal is by using its monopoly power in the CPU business to destroy Microsoft. It has violated the anti trust law.

To: mozek who wrote (12153)	11/10/1998 8:48:00 AM
From: nnillionaire	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

From 11/10/98 WSJ: Microsoft Threatened to Withhold Help On New Chip, Intel Executive Testifies interactive.wsj.com Excerpt: >WASHINGTON -- Intel Corp. abandoned Internet and multimedia software projects after Bill Gates said Microsoft Corp. might not support Intel's next chip, a threat that slowed innovation and hurt consumers, an Intel executive charged. Microsoft's chairman "became quite enraged" at Intel's software efforts in a meeting between the two companies on Aug. 2, 1995, the Intel vice president, Steven McGeady, testified at Microsoft's antitrust trial in U.S. District Court here. "The threat was both credible and fairly terrifying," because it would have derailed a huge investment, he said.< >The testimony marked a turning point in the government's case as the landmark trial entered a fourth week. This wasn't the whining of an inept competitor, as Microsoft has said of other companies' charges -- it was Microsoft's most powerful partner in the PC industry, the world's largest chip maker. And the testimony offered convincing evidence that consumers had been hurt, because Microsoft's alleged threat delayed potential improvements to sound and video on PCs.<

To: mozek who wrote (12153)	11/12/1998 12:31:00 PM
From: Pink Minion	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

This is a travesty. Intel's NSP software was a virus that made Windows perform like molasses. Verses the Windoze name it now has. As someone who was banging on keypunch machines when Bill was stealing /porting the Basic language off the net and changing the A: prompt to C: on a buggy version of CP/M to create DOS, I say F*** YOU. This is why the professionals in the industry despise you guys so much. You all are the last idiots to be telling another company what to innovate. We/I trust Intel providing quality software a lot more than you clowns. You all couldn't program "Hello World" without it crashing. You all helped the industry in the 80's by creating a standard, but the 90's has been nothing but destroying/copying innovation. You all are the Evil Empire, no two ways about it. May the source be with us. We're going to kick your ass. If we have to write decent software and give it away for free, we're gonna do it. Because we are artist and we care about doing things the right way. You guys don't. I bet Linux and NSP would blow your doors off, but who knows? I'm starting to pity (ed) the people who can't figure out what this trial is about. You guys just don't know what a bunch of geeks can really do. Mr. B