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To: KyrosL who wrote (53194)	12/9/1999 7:27:00 AM
From: Dealer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

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To: KyrosL who wrote (53194)	12/9/1999 10:41:00 AM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Kyros, your bandwidth discussion makes sense, and brings up another aspect of the internet buildout--the responsiveness of the web host's infrastructure. As more transactions hit the db and web servers, the customers' experience is most affected not by bandwidth, but by the capacities and speeds of those server platforms. A good reason to look at NTAP and EMC, as that is precisely their missions--to increase capacity, responsiveness and reliability of the web sites.

To: KyrosL who wrote (53194)	12/9/1999 11:28:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Kyros, who's talking about tiny screens? Images on 200mm x 100mm screens with full web functionality is what I'm thinking. Not necessarily video, but pictures. Video would be nice so we could watch HDR presentations while in an airport or aircraft, car in a traffic jam or out at a campsite. We need to send pictures too. Nor are images expensive even now. 14kbps is a joke. Convinced now? Or do you really not believe that the WWeb is important to people? Finding a hotel, checking and managing their financial affairs. Getting a map for the area they are driving in. Handling email with images [sending and receiving] using the digital camera built in. These are not joke functions. These are valuable things to do. Fuel cell batteries mean that power supply is not a constraint. Mq

To: KyrosL who wrote (53194)	12/9/1999 2:41:00 PM
From: Bux	Respond to of 152472

14kbps is plenty for most mobile individual information needs, especially if such information must be presented on a tiny screen and paid for. 14kbps, can fill a screen with characters in a small fraction of one second. The real cruel joke is those tiny screens! Who want's their reality to be dominated by little black pixels? There's only so many combinations of little black pixels. What users really want is lots and lots of super tiny color pixels. There are eyeglass displays, peephole displays, and in the next three or four years, lasers to paint your retina. 14.4 will not cut it. Also, color screens the size of the handset, that's what the clam-shell design is really for. Bux