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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (42819)	12/5/1998 10:41:00 AM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1573092

Re: "If AMD had cryo-cooled the K7 and demo'd it in public, and it crashed and burned the way the Katmai did, you people wouldn't shut up about it. We'd still be hearing about it when K8 was a mature product. Fact is Intel demo'd a chip at a clock speed it couldn't handle. I think THAT is EMBARRASING." But that was the purpose of the demo. It was stated before hand. They would crank up the speed to see how high it would go, with the full intention being to find the upper limit, IN PUBLIC. BTW it could have been the memory or the chipset that crashed. In addition, it was water chilled, not cryo-chilled. Re: "I can't fault AMD for playing it straight and conservative." I can't fault them either but I can fault those who made wild claims. EP