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sgolds, OT on Columbus

Your American mythology notwithstanding, Columbus did not discover North America. Columbus never got any further than some distant outlying islands. Had great PR though. Like saying if he discovered Hawaii, he found Australia.

Assuming that we are going to ignore the Vikings and other explorers, the nearest rediscovery of part of the North American continental mass by Europeans appears to have been by John Cabot. 1497.

Is this revelant to the AMD thread? In a way, it can be twisted to be. The general public will never be convinced that Columbus didn't discover North America. There is too much mythology involved, including songs, holidays, school books, city names, etc. The big lie does work. Just look at the effectiveness of pervasive propaganda in North Korea and parts of the former Soviet Union.

Intel has this momentum working for it. (Not saying "big lie" here, just well entrenched opinions/prejudices throughout the consumer and business worlds.) With AMD-64, AMD has a chance to rewrite the book. "Me too" products would never have such a chance, diversity at a more radical scale is required.