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To: XiaoYao who wrote (21331)11/10/1998 5:47:00 PM
From: Bearded One  Read Replies (3) of 24154
 
Everything Mozek says in that statment is correct, but doesn't actually contradict Intel's claims. In fact, it supports the claims.

Any software which bypasses the OS to provide high quality audio and video is going to hurt the OS, or require much more powerful hardware. In other words, if you want television quality over the internet, something is going to have to give. In this case, it would be the other software on the system, the most obvious being the OS.

Here's another point: There are OS's on the market which have much better performance than Windows. Linux is somewhat better, and BeOS absolutely rocks (thought it wasn't available for x86 back then). So if NSP became very popular, it might have spurred purchases of operating systems which compete with Windows.

So really, the point that NSP hurt Windows is actually evidence that Microsoft did something fishy here, because it provides motivation for Microsoft to stop NSP development.
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