Re: Voodoo II found to have overheating problems!

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From: Jeff Atwood
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:00

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Fuckin' A. Cut out the middleman and lets just send our money directly to
3dfx. They deserve it a hell of a lot more than Diamond or Creative. I hate
middlemen. They don't deserve a dime.

Jeff

sly wrote in message <34f2becf.18684770@news-server>...
>On Fri, 20 Feb 1998 17:03:29 GMT, papadoc@ix.nospam.com wrote:
>
>>What a coincidence!!!! They are getting their heads handed to them by
>>Creative's earlier release date and better product options (ie 12mb
>>board which Diamond says we dont need) with people all over the world
>>cancelling their Diamond pre orders to get the Creative Voodoo2
>>offerings and all of a sudden Diamond finds a bug. oooh yea....sounds
>>right to me. Actually Diamond has just convinced me that they are
>>completely full of shit....and that if I were 3dfx I would strongly
>>wonder whether they should continue being one of my partners.
>
>It should be interesting to see if 3dfx has any "problems" getting Diamond
>their quota of V2 chips :)
>

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From: "Jeff Atwood" <jatwood@a.crl.com>
Subject: Re: Voodoo II found to have overheating problems!
Date: 1998/02/25
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