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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (43620)	12/18/1998 1:01:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573543

Bill - Re: "Why are you so driven?" Because I have something to drive. Maroon ! Color me purple ! Paul

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (43620)	12/18/1998 2:13:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573543

Bill: <Why are you [Paul Engel] so driven?> Very simple - he found nothing to reply to this: Message 6873621 Sounds like "returns of iAPX432" to me... Regards, - Ali

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (43620)	12/18/1998 11:41:00 PM
From: Brian Hutcheson	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573543

Bill ,re. mighty Intel can do no wrong On the contrary Intel has been in damage control for quite a while . First it tried to monopolise the PC business with a proprietary slot 1 Then it realised that K6 was gaining too much market share so it brought out celeron in a big hurry which not only was a poor performer but also did not have the same Mboard as PII , which did not give the consumer an upgrade path to PII . Then it realised that the price difference in the Mboards between the celeron and K6-2 was too great plus the slot 1 was redundant with L2 cache on the chip . The result was the socketed Celeron A. Add to all this the need for yet another proprietary interface slot 2 and Intel is sending a message that it really isn't in control anymore. It now has 4 different types of mboard which together with its strange way of naming its chips really gets the customer confused Brian