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To: fut_trade who wrote (42838)	12/19/1997 6:44:00 PM
From: Shahen Petrosian	Read Replies (1) of 186894

> when they brought out the Pentium, the world needed a faster, more powerful > microprocessor I remember hearing and reading about the benefits of upgrading to Pentiums when the chips were first introduced. A lot of what I hear now resembles what was being said then. Remember that the first Pentiums introduced had speeds of 60 to 70 Mhz range. The benefits of switching from DX/2 486's were disputed, much like some of the arguments against the need for faster chips today. I don't recall any existing piece of software at the time that would REQUIRE you to switch but transition happened. Hardware improvements always come before the software that takes advantage of them. People with vision always find ways to take advantage of better resources. Once the improvements gel the rest of us look back and wonder how we lived without them. Today's multimedia consists of nothing more than pixelated stamp sized video and hissy sound. We accept that the way around this is to add expensive hardware. Faster CPUs will eliminate the need for specialized hardware and allow cheaper, more maintainable software to take their place. While the internet does not support the transfer of such hi resolution multimedia data yet, DVD and even CD-rom drives do. > They had no competition at that time AMD was very much around in the 486 days. Competing in the market and the courtroom. Also, the threat of the Power PC was around with Motorolla, IBM and Apple behind it. A much more formidable competition than today, don't you think? Shahen Petrosian

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