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To: Process Boy who wrote (81815)	5/27/1999 10:06:00 PM
From: A. A. LaFountain III	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

PB: Re 57% + or - Actually, Intel predicted 57% +-2 for Q1 and Q2, but came in with 59% for Q1. I recall this to seemingly causing great consternation to our AMD threadmate and Needham Principle A.A. "Tad" La Fountain. Either he, or another analyst kept pressing C.O.O. Bryant to [paraphrasing] "just say 59 Andy", but Bryant kept saying "we predicted 57 +-2, and that's what we did [ because 59 is +2, therefor within the predicted range]. He did say they would revisit margin predictions after q2. Actually, my comment on the conference call was that I was going to start stating my age as + or - a couple of years (it's Hell getting old); subsequent to the call, I've decided to forget that metric and focus on a line width reduction...around my waist. - Tad LaFountain P.S. While I try to be principled in my actions as an analyst, my title is "Principal". When I joined Needham, I ascertained that the title is one step above Hall Monitor. - TL