Masem writes "The first single off the South Park album, due out before Xmas, is available from Comedy Central's web site This is about a 30 sec clip of the Master P rap "Kenny's Dead" for downloading, but the download server seems slow (gee, wonder why), while the RA sites are working fine. "

Rise is hoping to deliver its mP6 socket 7, PII-level clones by Christmas. Given that their first silicon worked (not usual) they may be well on track. In related news, Cyrix and IBM will no longer work together. There will be no more Cyrix chips manufactured by IBM. Instead IBM will use ST's Metaflow design. ST (previously SGS Thomson) is another ex-Cyrix licensee.