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To: J R KARY who wrote (25908)	8/12/1999 4:10:00 PM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213187

Jim, "so kick start your Harley and enjoy your vacation ." It's electric ignition but thanks. Hopefully, won't miss too much. Regarding Apple and SGI. It's interesting to consider. SGI minus their NT and supercomputer business leaves their top of the line unix servers and workstations. Buying that unit would give Apple an instant presence in the high end, especially visual workstations and high bandwidth servers. SGI is certainly buyable, especially after it spins off the supercomputer and NT sector. Its market cap is about 2+ billion without the spinoffs. Of course their unix workstations and servers are MIPS based, full of unique architecture and use IRIX. Wonder how easy it would be to port OS X to the SGI machines. That would move OS X into the high end. SGI engineers have a reputation for not being interested in outside ideas and technology. Wonder if you could ever meld the two organizations given their fierce independence. Rich