4th July 1999 Archive
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Secret CompaQ memo shows depth of Unix commitment
Company to plough money into Alpha and Linux too
Any doubts that CompaQ is revising its Unix-Alpha strategy have been dispelled by a memo issued by the triumvirate running the firm. But CompaQ is revisiting it. On Thursday, the office of Ben&Frank&Ted issued an internal memo to staff showing how committed CompaQ is not only to Tru64 Unix but to the Alpha chip. The memo, …
Business 4 Jul 1999, 07:53
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Cyrix-Via shrinks socket seven die on M2-400
But, mysteriously, number of pins goes up
Our friend Daiki has alerted us to the fact that Cyrix has released the M2-400 processor in Japan. But, he points out, although it seems to have a smaller die size than the previous M2, it has 321 pins rather than 296 pins. The M2-400 could use a .18 micron rather than a .25 micron process, but, as Daiki points out, we don't …
Business 4 Jul 1999, 08:44
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AMD Athlon K7s go retail in Japan RSN
Rest of world+dog will just have to wait
Once more, and as we predicted a week or so back, the Japanese market will be first off the starting blocks with sales of the AMD K7, now known as the Amazing Athlon. Thanks to our friends for pointing to the following place where the 500MHz, the 550MHz and the 600MHz parts are already priced up. According to Daiki, sales will …
Business 4 Jul 1999, 08:45
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PC133 delivers ‘awesome stability’
BX Boards puts the technology to the test
BX Boards has turned its screwdrivers on PC133 memory. With its usual thoroughness, the British-based hardware review site puts modules from Samsung, Enhanced Memory Systems, Crucial and Corsair through their paces. And the conclusions? Don’t throw away PC100, just for the sake of it. But if you’re in the market for new memory, …
Business 4 Jul 1999, 09:49
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MS COO explains racist slur in its software
It's sort of inadvertent racism by juxtaposition, you might say
Microsoft COO Bob Herbold has written an open letter to customers explaining the "unfortunate and isolated situation" that has led to the company being sued over racist images in Microsoft Publisher. (MS in frame over racist slur) It would seem that Microsoft has an unfortunate problem with the way its Clip Art Gallery search …
Business 4 Jul 1999, 14:34
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MS paid economist witnesses' company $6m in 18 months
MS on Trial Bristol trial reveals NERA's substantial Microdollar pile
Attorneys in the various Microsoft trials are becoming increasingly fascinated by the relationship between MS and NERA, the outfit that employs (in addition to his day job at MIT) DoJ trial witness Richard Schmalensee and Bristol trial witness Richard Rapp. In the latter trial it was revealed last week that NERA had earned $6 …
Business 4 Jul 1999, 14:43
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MS denounced by ZDnet readers – is it a Linux hit team?
Right now it looks like nobody believes MS any more - come on you Windows fans, retaliate!
We've no way of knowing the source of the Microsoft documents ZD used for Friday's story on future versions of Windows (ZD Story). Maybe Microsoft leaked them deliberately to start the hype spinning again post Win2k, maybe they're real internal MS documents leaked without authorisation - but they seem to have had a bizarre …
Business 4 Jul 1999, 14:55
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MS roadmap for next Win9x and consumer NT leaks out
And hopelessly over-optimistic it looks to us, too...
Microsoft's post Win2k operating system roadmap is back on track - but considering the size of some of the potholes, it's unlikely to stay there. According to documents leaked to ZD mags Smart Reseller and PC Week, there's one more rev of Win9x due next year, and then the consumer version of NT for 2001. (ZD story) Regular …
Business 4 Jul 1999, 15:01
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Curious synergy exists between Intel and AMD Athlon Web sites
In fact, they look almost identical
We regularly receive notifications here of new Intel domains that come into being. Imagine our surprise, then, when we heard of a new one called Intel-Store, seemingly owned by the Intel Corporation, which looks startlingly like another site called AMD Athlon we noticed two weeks ago. (See AMD Athlon a struggle, a game: it's all …
Business 4 Jul 1999, 17:46
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Roll-up for the Amazing Micron DRAM inventory fire sale
...major PC OEMs only need apply
Micron is conducting a DRAM fire-sale, after stock levels ballooned by two weeks. But don’t all rush at once. The US memory maker is gouging prices only for major PC OEMs. It hopes this will be enough to persuade these customers to swap from 32MB to 64MB onboard memory on budget PC lines. With inventory now standing at seven …
Business 4 Jul 1999, 20:43
