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To: MONACO who wrote (5508)	6/17/1999 8:46:00 AM
From: docsox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10309

With the kind of power held by Gates and MSFT, it would not be hard to imagine the huge offloading of WIND by the largest institutional holder back before the last split to have been "arranged" so as to damage the company in a major way. Cutting the market cap in half seems like a pretty major blow to a vital organ to me. For anyone who has leanings toward conspiracy theories, this one is just too good to pass up. Maybe the Congress or the SEC would want to investigate the backdrop surrounding the sudden drop last year. Missing the mark by a few pennies would not ordinarily be cause for a total liquidation of a growth company with a rosy future, in my view, unless there were some "perks" or other incentives. Anyone else able to swallow this hypothesis as believable? David

To: MONACO who wrote (5508)	6/17/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: lkj	Respond to of 10309

From this article, it seems that MAC UK has done almost nothing. Both the OS and JVM are provided by WRS. All MAC UK had to do was to layout the board and put the box together, and maybe write some drivers. It is not clear if the mentioned application such as word processor and games were written by MAC UK. Neither is there any mentioning of the run time resource requirement. The worst part that no connection type is given, which makes this news release almost meaningless. The interesting part was the the JVM took 2.5MB to implement and it runs on a 233MHz CPU. That's a lot of ROM space and an expensive CPU. Yet the set-top box market seems to be going through a trimming down process right now, as WebTV has announced that its new set-top will be without a hard disk to save cost.