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To: J. David who wrote (20571)	3/8/1998 3:31:00 AM
From: WeisbrichA	Read Replies (1) of 97611

JD, I guess you are not from the business world. Mr. Ginz's remark "Most people and businesses use PCs for spreadsheets, word processing, and the like." is valid. Walk through most commercial firms and you will find he is correct. I have NT4W running here on 16MB and every thing is quite adequate. Loads could be faster, but that is a disk function mostly. Excel certainly runs a hell of a lot faster than I can fill the cells. I cannot overflow typing into Wordperfect. I don't play games on this system. So why do I need faster than a 166 MHZ processor? I am certain that you engineers see a need for faster speeds. There is a whole class of machines called workstations for you. And, W98 is not going to make any difference in application speed. Special Audio/Visual applications may have a need for the 200MMX. But common business applications. NAH! System I/O, especially disk, still continues to be the bottleneck for virtually all business applications, stand-alones or clients or servers. The CPU has been in "Overkill mode" for some time for business applications. RW

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