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To: steve harris who wrote (95248)	2/26/2000 11:20:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575247

Re: another piece on the Xbox from AMDZone... Hi Steve, Is this ahead of expectations? This news makes it look like volume will be available for this Christmas season, and I had thought that X-box was going to be an '01 product. Sony PSII may be facing more competition, and a more confused market, than was expected. PSII is a piece of the Rambus argument that the "worst case scenario" wouldn't be too bad. zdnet.com, game developer UbiSoft let slip that a coming game, based on the TV series "VIP" and starring Pamela Anderson Lee, will also run on the Xbox platform when it hits shelves in the fall. The announcement hit the wires on Friday in France. I'm disappointed that the X-box requires a standard hard disk. Given what ram pricing will be by this fall, a diskless PC would have been (IMHO) feasible. The support issues associated with a hard drive worry me a bit, given the history of windows - do you think Microsoft will ship their X-box with Linux instead? <VVVBG> Regards, Dan PS - the 6195 looks good so far. All the standard stuff, NT (SP6), Office (SP2), Novell and NT server connectivity has been uneventful - zero problems or "issues". The machines have DVD rom and soundblaster cards (not on-board sound) We'll be exercising Oracle 8 client, SQL Server client, and Solstice NFS connectivity next week. We continue to use Matrox G400max video and 3Com network cards.

To: steve harris who wrote (95248)	2/26/2000 12:57:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1575247

steve Re: X-box this sounds very encouraging. Not just from AMD's point of view, but from the point of view of the adult gaming fans. The consoles have taken over a big chunk of revenue, and development resources. The result is all is that the resources are spread too thinly, a lot of resources are spent on all the conversions, so you have to go for the lowest common denominator to sell enough games. The results are all these moronic games you see these days. The PC platform is still too hard to use for gaming mass market. X-box could make the PC games accessible to people who can't figure out some of the tuning it takes to play some games on the PC. Joe