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Technology Stocks : Diamond Multimedia (DIMD)
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To: Kashish King who wrote (40)9/13/1996 7:55:00 PM
From: Jonathan Quick   of 99
 
"Windows NT multiprocessor servers and workstations are proliferating at an exponential clip. NT's success does not depend on Direct3D however backward compatibility for all Windows '95 APIs is guanteed for future releases. Diamond's products run with the NT drivers that Microsoft ships along with every copy of NT that it sells."

NT 4.0 is backward compatible with the Win '95 API, but the
NT 4.0 installation process requires reinstallation of ALL
components previously installed onWindows 95. Like the
absence of plug and play support, the absence of laptop support,
and the absence of Direct 3-D support, the inability to easily
upgrade from an existing Win 95 installation limits the
attractiveness of NT 4.0 to the home user and the business user
alike. More particularly, the limitations I've listed guarantee that
NT 4.0 will be limited almost solely to the business market, a
market ill-suited to most of Diamond's product line.

The "future release" you've mentioned will not take place
until 1998. In the meantime, NT 4.0 does not support the
Direct 3-D standard, drastically limiting the utility of
Diamond's Virge-based 3-D accelerators. The
fundamental question I've raised involving whether or
not demand exists on the part of system administrators
for Diamond's product line to begin with has yet to be
answered.

Jonathan
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