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To: Elmer who wrote (41933)	11/19/1998 10:17:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573018

Elmer - Re: "With so many of their Design Engineers leaving the company they are spread really thin." I don't know if this is true, but anything is possible. However, the K7 seems to be an AUSTIN design and the K6-3 seems to be a NexGEN design - Fremont or whatever. That would imply at least two design teams - separated physically. Of course, the brilliant K5 was designed in Austin and we all know what a great processor that turned out to be ! Paul

To: Elmer who wrote (41933)	11/19/1998 10:28:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573018

1) Katmai is late. Too bad. Probably "all because talented people have to be shifted around to fill the holes left by all those who jumped ship. Or so the rumor goes...." 2) Microsoft has taken credit for creating the "incompatability." You get the patch that fixes their poor code directly from them. This thread has been over this 600 times since we first found out about it months ago. Damn, the Pentium can't divide properly, "all because talented people have to be shifted around to fill the holes left by all those who jumped ship. Or so the rumor goes...." I even have a website to prove it: igc.apc.org 3) If an AMD VP makes a flat out statement that the K7 FPU will be 2x as fast as any other x86 CPU out there, then the claim has to be taken seriously. If he was lying, AMD would be legally obligated to make a correction. Now, it may be true that the K7 will show 2x faster FPU performance for SOME applications but not others, but even if this is the case this still indicates that the K7 represents a dramatic improvement in FPU performance over current x86 CUs. 4) Elmer, What do you think the K7 is going to feature a 100 MHz BSB? The standard K7 BSB doesn't need to match the Xeon anyway--remember, AMD is targeting the $1500 to $2500 market with the K7. Kevin

To: Elmer who wrote (41933)	11/19/1998 11:30:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1573018

Elmer- Stick to the facts You seem to want benchmarks, or facts, but you sure don't dish them out. "They have to ship defective processors or they'd ship nothing at all." If you are refering to the Win 95 thing, look at the old news.com article Michael Kanellos wrote. He states that it is not a chip error, but a software error. "the K7 is slipping" Oh yeah? Where did you read this? All signs point to the opposite direction. "With so many of their Design Engineers leaving thecompany they are spread really thin." How many is "so many"? Since you know that "so many" have left, you should be able to give at least a guess.