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To: Process Boy who wrote (53949)	4/2/1999 1:00:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571939

Process Boy, Power PC does not execute x86 code, so it is not a good analogy. Regardless of how many K7's AMD can produce, K7 will set the high end pricing. This will likely drag Intel's ASP's down significantly. Scumbria

To: Process Boy who wrote (53949)	4/2/1999 1:13:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571939

Re: "I think the Power PC a few years ago also kicked Intel's butt (supposedly) in performance. " Not true. The PPC never offered a significant performance advantage except under a couple of hand picked benchmarks. In fact it trailed the Intel processors most of the time. This was extremely embarrassing for the PPC fans because they spent so much time describing the x86 as an old antiquated piece of sht while the PPC was a new, leading edge design based on the most advanced concepts and developed by the combined genius of IBM Motorola and Apple. It was very difficult to explain why such a marvel of engineering was only "almost as fast as a piece of sht". I expect the K7 will have the same explaining to do when the time comes. EP