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To: pompsander who wrote (28291)	8/31/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

pomp, Rambus could walk on water and some of these guys will pan the performance because the soles of their shoes got wet. LOL! But Bert wasn't even dissing Rambus, he was dissing the concept of 4X AGP and the idea that no one would want to take a realistic 3D tour of a building. I worked for SGI for a very short period in 1990. At the time, I fielded some focus groups on how we might expand the business beyond the Hollywood and scientific communities (and, yes, they're still wrestling with that issue). I pulled in architects, furniture designers, graphic designers, luxury ship builders, etc. (basically, designers) in homogenous sessions. To a one, each group believed that it would have been a significant improvement in their design and marketing processes to be able to show an on-line guided tour of a new building, a new ship, or a room with new furniture; to let the customer take their own tour at their own pace and under their own direction. And how about being able to place furniture and appliances in the boat (with real weights, dimensions, etc.) and be able to verify that the center of gravity was still over the center of the keel? Or to verify in real-time that the design for your building can handle a 7.0 earthquake, using the actual physical properties of the materials you specify. The list goes on and on and just gets bigger and bigger with real world design and simulation opportunities. How shortsighted Bert must be. Dave