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To: Steve Porter who wrote (77254)	10/26/1999 10:14:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572963

Re: "I think the biggest signifigance of MS using the Athlon is the show of faith for the Athlon.. I don't think anyone expects the unit to be a success, but it does send an interesting message." It means MSFT thinks 2 things. #1 Volume will be low and AMD won't become capacity constrained. #2 AMD is desperate enough to cut the price much lower than Intel would. EP

To: Steve Porter who wrote (77254)	10/26/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1572963

Steve, Set top boxes that are browsers and TVs will come, but they need a higher resolution than std TV. Right now you can get cards with tuners in them and picture in picture. I can see an appliance evolving that you could watch TV and surf on that is sharper than what we have now as the low end. It will have it's share and due to the large number of houses and TV watchers the numbers can be large. Since surfing is an individual process it is hard to see 4 people surfing and looking at different items, you could do two with a polarising screen and more with smart LCD shutter glasses as long as you had a 120 herts frame rate so each one of four would have 3 frames a second and it would be acceptable. But LCD glasses? Well they do them for virtual stuff, so it is doable. Bill