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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (19742)	5/29/1998 12:42:00 AM
From: John H. Kurz	Read Replies (1) of 24154

Daniel: I'm not the least bit concerned about the government actually taking down Wintel. I go back to the days when there were several operating systems and several microprocessors. At that time if you considered the PC useful for anything the managements in big business thought you were crazy, and would spend only token amounts to further the use of PC's. Since that time they have change their minds and have invested heavily and now most of the major corporations depend on them. The reason that they depend on them is that the software and processor specifications work together to do something useful. They have spent billions teaching ordinary workers to use these machines to run their businesses at much greater efficiency and profits. To back up now and use anything different would cost many more billions. They also control the money that controls the politicians that might upset their applecart. No way are they going to let the government screw up their system. What really bothered me was the article published on the Intel thread that indicated that microprocessors may be obsolete. It had to do with a Chinese idea of using cheap memory chips in a certain way with a little different programing that eliminated a lot of steps the processor now does. There was some very in depth discussions by some really talented computer scientist that resulted in a decision that this was not a hair brain idea. I was not involved in the discussions and have since lost track of the threads but it was real. It didn't take a genius to figure out that if this idea is developed in China that it would be faster and cheaper than anything Intel has and Microsoft software would be replaced with Chinese software (in English) to do what the world now does. Now what would that do to the American economy?

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