This question really piques my interest, as I have worked in a university system oncology office for several years. In our clinic, we handle a great number of patients - so many that external warehouses have been constructed to house the overflow of Medical Records.
    Roughly one year ago, a system called Sunrise Disease Manager (SDM) was implemented; I have been told by the physicians there, including my own father, that it can do *all* of the things paper MR's can do, as well as incredible data-mining ops, like drug effectiveness comparisons, ethnic/age/sex mortality graphs, etc. On top of that, it has automated billing, voice recognition support for dication, and other niceties. From what I understand, SDM runs on a sealed unix box in the back office and can interface with every major OS out there.
It's certainly no surprise to me that something like this happened, but before you go crucifying eBay, think about the position they are in. Microsoft doesn't like this - so they threaten eBay with their buildings full of IP lawyers. eBay, threatened with a lawsuit which will certainly make it to court, simply takes the path of least resistance. Not Admirable, but practical. Not all companies have the resources to deal with high-pressure/publicity lawsuits.
You say that the K6-2/K6-III are better because of their 100mhz FSB... a K6-III 450 running at 450 mhz costs more than a celeron 366 running at 550, and the celery has the same FSB when overclocked. And let's not forget the abysmal mathematical performance of the K6-2/K6-III...
Mine too! I run my 433 at 541 STABLE and have been doing so for 6 months. If you want to do some serious overclocking, your best bet is an abit, especially the BE6 - you'll find that you can squeeze more out of your processor if you have FSB speeds in between 83 and 100 mhz to choose from (my celery runs at 541 fine, but won't post at 650, which is pretty normal. I've run it in another board at 585/90mhz FSB). Good luck!
AMD moved their new microprocessor to the slot A architecture for several reasons, most of them technical. Did you even read the white papers? The new procs run on a 200mhz system bus inheirited from the Alpha, support up to 8MB of L2 cache, and can [in the future] be scaled upwards of 16 processors to a single board (DAMN, that machine would cook!). Another interesting possibility, which I'm not sure is actually doable, is buying a multiple-proc slot A motherboard and slapping some Alphas in it (same slot/bus, remember?). I guess if you ignore all of this, there isn't a reason that AMD switched to the slot A architecture. IOW: Shut the hell up and know what you're talking about before you shoot your mouth off again.
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    This question really piques my interest, as I have worked in a university system oncology office for several years. In our clinic, we handle a great number of patients - so many that external warehouses have been constructed to house the overflow of Medical Records.
    Roughly one year ago, a system called Sunrise Disease Manager (SDM) was implemented; I have been told by the physicians there, including my own father, that it can do *all* of the things paper MR's can do, as well as incredible data-mining ops, like drug effectiveness comparisons, ethnic/age/sex mortality graphs, etc. On top of that, it has automated billing, voice recognition support for dication, and other niceties. From what I understand, SDM runs on a sealed unix box in the back office and can interface with every major OS out there.
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(Just to be fair, I have to warn you. It is NOT cheap.)
It's certainly no surprise to me that something like this happened, but before you go crucifying eBay, think about the position they are in. Microsoft doesn't like this - so they threaten eBay with their buildings full of IP lawyers. eBay, threatened with a lawsuit which will certainly make it to court, simply takes the path of least resistance. Not Admirable, but practical. Not all companies have the resources to deal with high-pressure/publicity lawsuits.
You say that the K6-2/K6-III are better because of their 100mhz FSB... a K6-III 450 running at 450 mhz costs more than a celeron 366 running at 550, and the celery has the same FSB when overclocked. And let's not forget the abysmal mathematical performance of the K6-2/K6-III...
Mine too! I run my 433 at 541 STABLE and have been doing so for 6 months. If you want to do some serious overclocking, your best bet is an abit, especially the BE6 - you'll find that you can squeeze more out of your processor if you have FSB speeds in between 83 and 100 mhz to choose from (my celery runs at 541 fine, but won't post at 650, which is pretty normal. I've run it in another board at 585/90mhz FSB). Good luck!
AMD moved their new microprocessor to the slot A architecture for several reasons, most of them technical. Did you even read the white papers? The new procs run on a 200mhz system bus inheirited from the Alpha, support up to 8MB of L2 cache, and can [in the future] be scaled upwards of 16 processors to a single board (DAMN, that machine would cook!). Another interesting possibility, which I'm not sure is actually doable, is buying a multiple-proc slot A motherboard and slapping some Alphas in it (same slot/bus, remember?). I guess if you ignore all of this, there isn't a reason that AMD switched to the slot A architecture. IOW: Shut the hell up and know what you're talking about before you shoot your mouth off again.