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Non-Tech : Amati investors
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To: pat mudge who wrote (23044)8/17/1997 5:51:00 PM
From: fibonacci   of 31386
 
Mike: welcome to the Amati thread - future possibilities.

Please consider the following two quotes and what they portend for Amati share holders and participants of the Internet.

1. "The key to the future of television is to stop thinking about television as television." from "being digital" by Nicholas Negroponte, Founding Director of the MIT Media Lab.

2. "Amdahl/Case Rule: A balanced computer system needs about 1 MB of main memory capacity and 1 megabit per second of I/O bandwidth per MIPS of CPU performance." from "Computer Architecture a Quantitative Approach" by John L. Hennessy & David Patterson.

The first quote means that we should think about television as digital content. For example, the Amati Booth CAM images that they are fond of transmitting from the traded shows to us are received by our web browsers as packet switched digital information. So we're talking about tagged searchable digital video content on the Internet as the television of the future.

The second quote informs us of the necessity for "balanced" systems. The Amdahl/Case Rule is generally applied to standalone computer systems. But consider the Internet as a computer system and it becomes apparent that we have a major I/O bandwidth problem.

Amati Communications Corporation is right in the middle of these issues. They have provided a very cost effective solution to the bandwidth problem.

Pat. Thanks for that great ADSL site. I'm also hoping that companies such as Macromedia will provide the content production tools necessary to use the enhanced bandwidth to its maximum extent.
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