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

To: Ed Sammons who wrote (42676)	12/3/1998 12:08:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578632

<I see no reason why one board cannot support both the K7 and Alpha.> First of all, it's not clear whether the Alpha 21264 can be built in a Slot A form factor. It probably could, but there may be problems that none of us would know about. Second, if the K7 is interchangeable with the Alpha, this is a very dumb business move in my opinion. Unless AMD has some sort of deal with Compaq, or AMD wants to move away from the x86 architecture in the far future, I can't see how the option to change from K7 to Alpha would benefit AMD. Tenchusatsu