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To: Ann Janssen who wrote (23514)	4/23/1999 3:09:00 PM
From: margaret tasset	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27012

Hello Ann, Just a quickie hello here since I need to go get ready to go to the post office to mail my packages and then on to the dinner and cruise. We are going to the evening one as they didn't have a day one today. Harry took off of work to go on it too. But that is ok since we have lots for him to do around here today. I am glad that Ashley's finger is getting better. Gretchen did the same thing, smashed her finger in the car door. Both of my girls broke their arms. Debbi had to spend the night in the hospital when she did it. Something about them being worried about her circulation or something. Also the school called the rescue squad when she did it and they brought her to the hospital. What a drama, right. Heather broke hers in an auto accident with one of her boy friend's and called me at 2 in the morning to let me know that she was in the hospital, rescue had bought her there. It was on April 1st and I thought that it was an April fool but it wasn't. They had to keep her for a few days as they thought she had done something to her spleen. Heather was always like that however, I mean always getting in accidents. She called me from college one time and told me that she had been in a car accident and the car was totaled and that they had to pull her out with one of those stretcher boards after they preyed the car with those metal tools. Thank goodness that I heard about it when it was all over. Now Ann, you see some of what you have to look forward to. I hope that Ashley is not like Heather since those stories are absolutely just the beginning. I'll tell you about the bike accident and the head injuries another time. Have a great week-end. I am happy to hear that that AMD chip is not too much a a threat. I really have too much Intel and get nervous about every little rumor. Thank you for the e-mail about the virus. yack later, Margaret

To: Ann Janssen who wrote (23514)	4/23/1999 3:17:00 PM
From: musea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27012

Ann, You wrote (concerning "advanced" features on CPU chips): The other thing that I think about when we get all these bells and whistles on the chips is weather or not the average user is really going to use them. I know Paul Engle and I had a nice conversation when MMX first came out. Yes, he is a nice guy, if your nice to him. There was very little software that actually took advantage of the new features. If a customer is running Microsoft Windows 98 and using any software that makes use of DirectX (some games, some graphics apps) then they will be making use of MMX and other advanced features even if the programmers of the apps did not explicitly use these features. This is because Microsoft recognizes the various chips and uses the most advantageous features of each one. The AMD feature set is quite impressive, as is the Intel feature set. Going beyond MMX, the companies have diverged. Of the known CPU providers, IDT is following along in AMD's path and it is rumored that NSM will also follow AMD. AMD has been very active in getting the ISVs to write to their feature set and as I mentioned above, DirectX 6 and higher recognize the existence of these features and make use of them. Of course the newest Intel features are also recognized and used in sufficiently new versions of DirectX. However, you are right and it is not clear that AMD will ever be able to shake the perception that their chips are somehow second-rate. That's unfortunate because they do have good products. -musea