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To: flatsville who wrote (82971)	1/10/2000 3:43:00 PM
From: IceShark	Respond to of 86076

No, Niles shot it. Fundamentals don't matter unless an anal says it. Even then, it may not matter that much if another blows smoke.

To: flatsville who wrote (82971)	1/10/2000 4:29:00 PM
From: per strandberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86076

flats, Yes, it's strange that Dell is down, considering the new era that is coming: Extrapolating the trends one can clearly see that by year 2007 both Microsoft and Linux will have over 80% market share. This seemingly paradoxical development is of course due to the future necessity of running at least two operating systems on each computer. (Often three will be used as the old Microsoft version will be used as a backup until the new version is stable enough to actually use it for running programs). It will be worth a fortune to have Linux installed so that one can get some free software. In 10 years, my hard disk has increased a thousandfold. 20 MB was OK when I was just using a word processor and a spreadsheet. Now I have 20GB but I am using a word processor, spreadsheet and a browser. In another 10 years I will have a 20TB hard disk and may have added another application. Applying the law of diminishing return, even that disk will be completely cluttered with strange files that slowly fill any available storage space. Trying to free some space inevitably deletes some dll that was neccesary to run some other program. The other good news is the astounding use of RAM. The appetite for RAM seems to be increasing equally fast. With Microsofts ability to gobble up available RAM, MU must be considered as a safe long call. With an explosive increase in the needs for GB and GHz, all PC-makers can be assured that all PCs must be constantly upgraded to accommodate all the operating systems. Despite the fact that the CPUs are getting faster, the time for starting up and closing down the operating system seems to be increasing ever more. I estimate that Windows 2010 will take about 10 minutes to start up. That is another reason for having multiple PCs. Keep one on all the time for some quick email checks. So the future is bright: The exponential growth will continue into many billions because there are no fundamental limits such as the world population when we all can have as many PCs as we like.