[busymom0]

> If your son has requested a new "processor" from a company called "AMD", this is genuine cause for alarm. AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips. They use child labor extensively in their third world sweatshops, and they deliberately disable the security features that American processor makers, such as Intel, use to prevent hacking. AMD chips are never sold in stores, and you will most likely be told that you have to order them from internet sites. Do not buy this chip! This is one request that you must refuse your son, if you are to have any hope of raising him well.

I can’t tell if this post is serious or satire? Was this actually the consensus back in 2001?

[Buttons840]

In 2001 children soldered each logic gate by hand. /s

Just kidding. It's satire. It's supposed to be funny because a chip fab is a very clean environment, not a "sweatshop".

[spiralx]

AMD being dangerous knock-offs was one of the recurring themes we had, and in fact when we closed the site in 2002/3 we changed it to a blank screen with just a message we'd received from an AMD employee threatening to "shut us down" :)

[smabie]

Yep. AMD processor? Straight to jail.