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To: Richard Tuck who wrote (1219)10/10/1997 10:19:00 PM
From: Robert Walter   of 6843
 
Richard,

RE:Intel still sets the standards and as time goes on, expands its
reach beyond the CPU and chipset to the I/O and power supplies.

I agree with your this entire post. Intel is setting the standards and all the PC makers have little choice but to eventually follow. However that does not mean the end to socket seven over the next few years, but it will decline as new standard becomes more clear. (IMHO Intel will migrate away from slot one to a similar concept but different approach.) The one company with enough clout in the PC industry
to stand up to Intel's ideas is Microsoft. Right now they are aligned very closely but if Intel slips up and infringes on Bill Gates ideas then we may see the fragmentation in the PC industry that all of you are talking about.

Some one recently posted a question regarding Intel's Mercede and its instruction set and I did not see any one respond. Does any one know if the current instruction set will be compatitable? I noticed in the press release that it stated HP, Intel and a group of other companies were working on the instruction set and operating system for the Mercede but I did not notice Microsofts name as one of the participants. May be some one out there can answer this and save me the time of doing a net search.

Thanks in advance,

Robert
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