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RE: AMD 3DX thoughts

Bill Gates to Jim Allchin and Paul Maritz, February 20, 1997

Exhibit290
From
Bill Gates
Sent
Thursday, February 20, 1997 5:03 PM
To
Jim Allchin, Paul Maritz
Subject
RE: AMD 3DX thoughts

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I agree with all of your thoughts here. If Intel has a real problem with us supporting this then they will have to stop supporting Java Multimedia the way they are. I would gladly give up supporting this if they would back off from their work on JAVA which is terrible for Intel. I have a call with Andy on this topic coming up on Monday.
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About this email

Jim Allchin had asked whether Microsoft should support new AMD 3DX instructions even though Intel might object. Gates replied above Allchin's forwarded message.

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