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To: QwikSand who wrote (16969)	6/8/1999 10:40:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Respond to of 64865

It's a matter of attaching "smartish" terminals (whose degree of intelligence will depend on their primary function) to a highly reliable distributed fabric of compute power that is local when you want it to be and global when you don't. If you read the above you'll see quite clearly there is no definition of the size or makeup of the iron nor of the networking hierarchy that comprises the fabric. The "fabric" will be a net formation of heterogenous systems; shall be independant of iron vendor. As we develop better interconnect fabrics we will not need to depend on centralized architectures. Best Regards James

To: QwikSand who wrote (16969)	6/8/1999 11:21:00 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 64865

[ It doesn't matter how many times you repeat your iron mantras. The status quo ain't gonna quo much longer, and neither is Microsoft's monopoly.] You are correct! Did I tell you that our new PC will run LINUX? Spouse runs PC at work with LINUX & loves it. M............