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

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (44117)	12/27/1998 7:23:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1574761

A funny old post from a resident chucklehead: exchange2000.com Sure Yousef. Heh heh.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (44117)	12/27/1998 7:53:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574761

<Intel had its own problems trying to move customers to Slot 1, and they're supposed to be the "800 lb. gorilla." Imagine the difficulties AMD will face trying to move customers over to K7 and Slot A.> Intel had problems because the Slot1 is a very bad engineering solution for the consumer market, mechanically at least. Plus no logical advantages for performance. As for AMD "difficulties", maybe they have something more compelling in their sleeves for SlotA? Performance, for example. Or Alpha-like SMP scalability. Or super-fast but very reliable clock-forwarding protocol? Or just dedication to customers and willngness to cooperate instead of stealing their businesses? <even if Intel shafted its customers (which you have yet to prove with more than just an isolated incident or two).> This is a common knowledge, and noone is obliged here to fill the blanks in your education. Even Paul keeps his mouth shut on these matters.