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To: rudedog who wrote (11006)	9/25/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Re: General purpose vs. specialized processors Nobody buys a microwave oven to run applications. There's no question that there is a large market for embedded systems but this is not a market that MSFT serves (yet). As such it only represents potential upside if WinCE starts showing up in your car and embedded NT starts running switching gear. The notion that special purpose systems will supplant general purpose systems has been a debate for a very long time. General always wins in the consumer space because unlike machines humans are the most general of general-purpose entities and nobody wants to be a reduced to being a pack-mule for dozens of special-purpose devices. The emergence of wearable computing will drive this point home in force over the next few years.

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