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To: Marco Polo who wrote (60170)	6/1/1999 10:42:00 PM
From: Al Seim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571245

FWIW, I've been occasionally lurking around this board (& very occasionally posting) for several years, and can assure you that Paul Engel is a very intelligent & well-informed individual. I think that he worked in the semiconductor industry for a number of years, and has a PhD in a related field. He also can't resist the urge to skewer anyone showing even a hint of pro-AMD hyperbole, and in doing so will cheerfully use any piece of available data, out of context or not, in the process presumably infuriating most of the pro-AMD board readers. I've heard (but never read first-hand) that he has done the same to excessively enthusiastic pro-Intel posters on the Intel board. Try asking him a non-"AMD vs Intel" question and you'll be surprised at the intelligent answer you'll get! BTW, as a "contrarian", I own AMD and (no Intel) stock. It's been awfully frustrating watching them come close, then blowing it, over and over. I hope you're right wrt the K7. Al Seim

To: Marco Polo who wrote (60170)	6/1/1999 11:10:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1571245

Re: "But in fact I did know what I am talking about, and while the K7 can use 200 MHz clocked Rambus or DDR SDRAM, the Coppermine can only get use out of PC-133." The Coppermine will work with Rambus. Maybe not DDR SDRAM. It's not really the Coppermine or the K7 that works with these DRAM technologies--it's the chipset. I'll be surprised if the first AMD chipset that rolls out for the K7 supports anything faster than 133 MHz SDRAM. Camino will best this with Rambus support--of course, it will come out later in the year, at which point AMD or other chipset manufacturers may have other products available. Kevin