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To: Paul Engel who wrote (3485)	9/22/1996 6:12:00 AM
From: Kashish King	of 186894

The advantages are too obvious and too numerous to mention but what is it about Intel's processors that preclude them from powering an NC? I don't see anything in the requirements for an NC that don't amount to a reconfigured PC without local storage. The amount of power required for the coming 3D GUIs heavy on the audiovisual is going to overwhelm anything without stellar floating point performance -- MMX will raise the bar yet another level. There are certainly optimal hardware and software configurations for NCs, but the whole concept is more of a mode switch than anything else. Intel's competition is the same as it ever was: PowerPC, Alpha and so on. By the way, did IBM put a PowerPC or a PowerNC in their network computer?

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