Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 01:15:29 09/30/02
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On September 30, 2002 at 04:11:57, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On September 30, 2002 at 01:43:52, Aaron Gordon wrote: > >>On September 30, 2002 at 00:21:12, Jeremiah Penery wrote: >> >>>On September 30, 2002 at 00:05:40, Slater Wold wrote: >>> >>>>I got the annoucement in August that the 2600s would be coming out soon. It is >>>>now September and they are barely rolling out. (As in, several vendors who are >>>>selling them don't actually have them yet.) AMD is horrible about this. >>>>Announce a chip, and 3 months later it hits the streets. >>> >>>Well, it's a paper launch, and most every company does it at some point or >>>another. Does AMD do it more than most? I can't answer, because I don't keep >>>track of those things. >> >>Intel does most of the paper launches. I the 2600+ is the only time I've seen >>AMD try that. > >I remember a lot of other launches. The K7 was announced 2.5 years before >it was on the market. specs were posted 1.5 years before it was on the >market and then it still wasn't there. Now you can cry about intel delaying >the K7 by some 'blackmail' (i do not know how to call it otherwise as >my english is not too well; they didn't want to deliver their intel chipsets >to mainboard manufacturers who wanted to make K7 motherboards and 90+% of >their sales were intel boards at that moment, so they actually needed them >bigtime). You can cry about other things too, but both manufacturers are >already drumming years ahead about new things. > >My own drumming about a diep windows version is completely amateuristic >compared to their drumming up to 7 years ahead. when did they announce about the k7 that it would run up to 8 processors, like they drum about the hammer doing that too now? if i remember well they drummed about the k7 being 8 processor SMP at the same time they drummed about the k7 coming. That was like when the k6 was just there? I remember K6s were playing Aegon 1997 and before. 5 years ago. still nothing 8 processor capable produced...
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