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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (41898)	11/19/1998 7:26:00 PM
From: Scot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575775

Thread: Here is some more on the K7. crw.com Here is a snip....to answer some recent posts: >>>>>>>>>>>>begin quote<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Officials here showed the K7 running several productivity applications, but the real horsepower of the processor was demonstrated while playing back a DVD movie. The system ran software decompression without any assistance from added hardware. Many systems today can run software-DVD while relying on the graphics card to handle some of the MPEG-2 decode process. AMD officials said the K7 won't need any hardware assist, even for such a CPU-intensive task.