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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (85872)	1/7/2000 5:03:00 PM
From: Greater Fool	Respond to of 1572786

>>tremendous growth in servers As you point out, a tremendous growth rate doesn't mean much when its base is small. 3D games are important, but they certainly aren't the end of the world. There's something here I've missed that's nudging at the back of my mind. In the past games were viewed as the benchmark test of systems. However, that was in an era in which PCs weren't connected to the Internet. Now the most important thing mainstream users want computers for is connecting online, along with a few other applications, such as word processing and spreadsheets, for which CPU power became adequate a long time ago. Now I've always said that what I ultimately want out of a computer is to be able to converse with it using natural language, so we still need a hell of a lot more power than we now have. But the power isn't taking center stage, at least not for the moment. I also happen to agree with you that Intel will win the MHz wars in the long run. But as you point out, will that be the determinant of profits? I doubt it. Thanks for your comments.