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To: Yousef who wrote (43661)	12/20/1998 10:18:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1572919

I am pretty sure a K6-3 review will be posted at midnight EST. If it is, I will provide the link. Most of you should know who I am referring to.

To: Yousef who wrote (43661)	12/20/1998 10:52:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1572919

Yousef, So AMD will need the Alpha slot for a transient period. Will those slot based solutions ever come back? I recall when they first came out I thought there were strictly a proprietary step, necessitated by the need to have short memory/CPU pathways and are now obviated by on chip cache. Some seemed to feel there was a valid reason for them. I am sure Intel would not have gone that way in light of the current situation with on chip cache tech catching up so quickly that the slow 1 became a total waste. Will AMD attempt to skip the Alpha slot and go direct to a socket based solution? or will they direly need the >500 Mhz Alph slot even though it will be short lived. In this case will potential buyers see this and not touch it with a ten foot pole? Questions? Bill