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To: Paul Engel who wrote (36845)	11/19/1998 12:01:00 PM
From: Russ	Read Replies (4) of 132070

>>Amir - Re: " can you give me one example of a single non-tech company that will benefit from replacing P100 PCs with PII-450Mhz."<< How about Dreamworks/SKG ANimation Studios - for all their animators - who wouldn't mind accelerating their renderings by a factor of two or three or four so they can get their Film Creation times down from three years to one. I really doubt that DreamWorks/SKG is using Intel based machines for ANY animation. Pixar has a render farm of Sun boxes, and I think that is fairly standard. Titanic made quite a splash in the computer graphics field because the rendering was done on networked PCs running Linux, and that was the first big commercial graphics job that didn't use big Unix iron. How about Sabre/American Airlines Reservation clerks - who can speed up queries for their customers to accelerate flight selections and ticketing reservation processes. LOL! That's a network process, with a big transaction server running remotely. The reservation clerks need minimal power, and increasing their workstations to a PII-450 will do nothing. XTerms, NCs, dumb terminals, Imacs will all work as well as a PII. How about Salamon/Smith Barney bond Traders - to keep track of tens of thousands of bonds, interset rates, yield computations and discounted cash flows, and minute by minute currency fluctuations for all major global markets ? Try Sun again. Nobody in their right mind would use PCs for this. -Russ

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