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Technology Stocks : Number Nine Visual Technology

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Dec 5 9:30 AM EST

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To: JR2 who wrote (1036)	1/17/1999 11:22:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (2) of 1183

Sgi's borg box is a very not compatable PC. Sgi ships it with SGI Workstation NT 4.0. That is not Microsoft Workstation NT. The SGI borg box will not run Microsoft Workstation NT 4.0. It will be priced above other systems with similar CPU's. It should also cause fratracide sales in SGI's unix workstations. Based on the relentless pricedown of technology, I'd be reluctant to spend more dollars today for a very proprietary PC. Sgi is in bed with Nine because they own 28% of the company in the form prefered shares convertable to common at 2.75 or 3.75. Sgi does not have any marketing experience into PC sales channels for their mitsubisi panel display. To maintain exclusive worldwide marketing rights they have commited to some volume. Nine is needed to get the volume sales in the PC market place. Nine is ideally suited to market the SGI flat panel in the PC market. Nine makes an excellent video card series in the revolution IV. This card has a digital interface to the SGI display. SGI has their own proprietary interface for the card. In that SGI may not be forthcoming in inside of their PC box, it is possible that linux will not run well on it. This for me is just one more reason to avoid this closed box. Also their are linux Xserver drivers for the number nine cards used to drive the SGI flat panel. I can also report the the graphics engine on these cards when used in linux with the hardware accelerated driver from xinside have what I can only call astounding performance. I am long on nine and therfore very high on nine. Anyone who looks into the situation at nine has seen the opportunity to make a lot of bucks.

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