Re: The "Case" for the AMD K6-2 and Socket 7 longevity

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From: H. West
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:00

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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.

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From: suarel@idt.net (H. West)
Subject: Re: The "Case" for the AMD K6-2 and Socket 7 longevity
Date: 1998/06/22
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