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To: Paul Engel who wrote (55085)	4/10/1999 1:18:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1582684

Paul, If you want to make performance assumptions based on alpha silicon from an unknown source, with an unknown date, with an unknown feature set, an unknown bios, unknown drivers, an unknown chipset and unoptimized software, feel free. Even so, the K7 still beat Intel's top processor. Got the picture? Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (55085)	4/10/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582684

<OEMs are less than happy with the kit they've received> He said nothing of the authority or education of the people he talked to. The could well have been janitors! He did say that the OEMS had agreements with AMD to not disclose the results. I doubt strongly that "the OEMS" were speaking of any disappointment with an alpha product. Only a naive person, or a rookie, would be surprised that an early alpha prototype K7 did not blow away the Pentium III production part. Every developer knows that you proceed through development steps: 1. dead 2. limper 3. functional mostly, but slow 4. fully functional, but slow 5. final speed 6. tweaked speed after removal of slow speed paths. The chip and board discussed is simply at level 3 or 4. The future prospects for the K7 is perhaps best indicated by a survey that I did that indicated that 85% percent of the negative posters on this thread post five times or more on the Intel thread on the same day.