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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (50623)	2/23/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573439

Ten, RE:"While we're being fair, let me take my turn and say that the K6-3 (oh, my bad, the K6-III) is perhaps AMD's first serious contender for the business segment of the market." ---Anands review bears you out. OTOH, getting AMD in the busibess door is more of a Image problem than a performance issue, IMHO. RE:"So now that AMD has made the K6-III announcement, when can we start seeing the first CPU available on Pricewatch?" No doubt the announcement was a little premature. This is the first time I've seen a chip announced with no place for it on pricewatch. RE:'et the K6-III does present a quandary for the guys in charge at AMD. It's pretty much a given that AMD is capacity-constrained right now, so we have to ask how much K6-2 production must be sacrificed for K6-3 production." Since Austin FAB isn't running near capacity I don't see much having to be taken away from the K6-2.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (50623)	2/23/1999 4:17:00 PM
From: greg nus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573439

Ten, my partner and I have one nec pentium II 300 one ibm aptivia amd k62-333, one HP AMd k6-2-366. almost every day we give these machines stringent work outs on complex graphic applications. Demanding graphic renderings one of the tuffest applications that makes the machines work for 10 to 15 minutes some times. many days we run such application for hours on end. the pentium II cost $3,000 new the. Aptivia, $1,500. and the HP 1,100. as for reliabilty we have never experienced these machines lock up.