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To: Saturn V who wrote (93603)	12/9/1999 2:22:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Respond to of 186894

Unfortunately the processor performance is increasing faster than the software demand. There is an old maxim that if the processor performance grows at greater than 40% annually, the old applications cannot use the extra performance. So in 2000 will the 1GHZ+ processors get confined to servers only ? Or will the consumers buy MHZ irrespective of a perceived benefit ? The exact same arguments have been used since the introduction of the 12-MHz (Turbo) 80286. I remember them well. Something new will always come along to eat up 110% of that spare processor power. The same thing applies to all the nay-sayers who are warning about a fiber glut, too.