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Article #28Re: The "Case" for the AMD K6-2 and Socket 7 longevity
From: None of Your Business
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 00:00
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On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:15:30 -0500, suarel@idt.net (H. West) wrote: >In article <pLMYl5dhX7hK-pn2-XzkpqYmlKFXq@localhost>, krw@ibm.net says... >< On Sun, 21 Jun 1998 17:18:47, "Doug Chism" >< <chismdm@earthlink.net> wrote: >< >< > >< > \>AMD has started designing their chips since the K5. >< > Yeah - after Intel designed and released an instruction set. >< > >< > >Not only do they have to >< > >do that, they have to take into consideration compatibility with intel >< > >standards. >< > >< > Its a lot easier to design a chip to a spec then to come up with a design >< > from scratch. >< >< Have you done either? I suggest that you are wrong. It is >< *very* difficult to clone a chip with all of it's "strangeness" >< and make it better. There are many gotchas that aren't in the >< specs. In fact there are things in "errata" that may not be >< known to the cloner. Clean rooom and all. > >Who gives a fuck? So what if one chip was harder to make than another, it has no >affect on whether you should buy it or not. OK, who's job was it to watch the assholes? It appears this one has wandered in.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ec8c,a85535ffb77361a8 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ec8c,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,a85535ffb77361a8 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: f8d87,a85535ffb77361a8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8d87,public From: nomail@nospam.com (None of Your Business) Subject: Re: The "Case" for the AMD K6-2 and Socket 7 longevity Date: 1998/06/23 Message-ID: <358fa940.776544@news.supernews.com> X-Deja-AN: 365295388 References: <6mcgq7$q3r$1@camel18.mindspring.com> <6mhdju$mjf$1@bolivia.it.earthlink.net> <3q2j1.531$24.3202696@news.itd.umich.edu> <6mjf9q$dpk$1@ecuador.it.earthlink.net> <pLMYl5dhX7hK-pn2-XzkpqYmlKFXq@localhost> <MPG.ff822fba62de0089897df@news.idt.net> X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com X-Trace: 898607493 EYPYCAQ1R2C40D13E usenet36.supernews.com Organization: The World's Usenet -- http://www.Supernews.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,alt.games.unreal,3dfx.products.voodoo2