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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (100599)	3/9/2000 1:00:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mary, whew! For a minute I thought I was going to be included as a Yahoo. Thanks are owed to you for your frank and objective constructive criticism. It came out on another thread this week that folks within another company might be reading SI threads, with some certain posters being purposely earmarked, expressly, for reading. If Intel did the same, you should be one that's read by Intel folks. Tony

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (100599)	3/9/2000 2:07:00 PM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Thanks Mary. Don't know much about these boxes myself, but I have to say that the Sony Playstation is getting a LOT of press! Getting a bit crazy too, judging by the rise in Sony's stock price and this article in today's NY Times, which says kids are getting mugged by thieves outside stores after buying a Playstation in Japan... Regards, John PlayStation 2: Catching Next Wave From Japan The new Sony PlayStation 2 game console, introduced last week in Japan, has already sold more than a million units there and is expected to be equally popular when it reaches the United States this fall, despite a list price of nearly $400. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Besides its highly advanced 3-D graphics capabilities, its ability to play DVD movies with surround-sound output and its broadband-ready Internet connections, the PlayStation 2 is also backward-compatible with thousands of existing PlayStation game titles. In the past, each new generation of game console was incompatible with the previous one, leading to a scarcity of new game titles and a flood of older consoles at local garage sales. With PlayStation 2, consumers will be able to keep their favorite first-generation PlayStation games while building a collection of new games. Eager game players in the United States are already trying to smuggle the Japanese consoles into the country, even though they cannot play Region 1 (North American) DVD discs without serious unauthorized tinkering with the DVD copy protection system. Meanwhile, the Microsoft Corporation, which used to be the second-largest software company in Redmond, Wash., before overtaking Nintendo, is preparing to announce tomorrow its own game console, whose code name is X-box. Details are scarce, but sources say the X-box will feature an Advanced Micro Devices Athlon processor and an nVidia 3-D graphics card. Microsoft's bid to enter the game console market with its X-box, which is not expected to reach the market until the 2001 holiday season, follows the software giant's apparently unsuccessful attempt to establish Windows CE as an alternative operating system for the Sega Dreamcast game console last year. Sega says it has sold more than 1.5 million Dreamcast systems so far, but software developers prefer Sega's own proprietary operating system. "The PlayStation 2 is the most powerful product ever introduced to the consumer market," said Richard Doherty, director of Envisioneering Group, a technology consulting company in Seaford, N.Y., who described its 3-D graphics capabilities as the equal of a $20,000 Silicon Graphics workstation vintage 1997. He also said the new PlayStation is so popular that thieves are ambushing Japanese teenagers when they emerge from stores carrying the new game machines. Nintendo is preparing to introduce its own high-end console, code named Dolphin, later this year. The Dolphin system is expected to include a PowerPC G4 microprocessor and a DVD drive, and like the PlayStation 2 it will also sell for about $350.

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (100599)	3/21/2000 12:21:00 PM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

OT Hi Mary and Thread, RE: "I hope Amy hasn't left us." Thank you Mary. I haven't left - I'm working very hard launching a startup and it's been extremely busy lately (and fun and exciting). I'm enjoying it a lot and am really excited about what we're doing. And I am so glad INTC has been behaving itself, going up, another all time high. One of the main reasons why I love to invest in INTC is it (by being such a solid company) provided the stability to start a company. I really, really appreciate that a lot. And I appreciate everyone's investment advice on this thread regarding INTC because this has helped me tremendously too. RE: "She knows quite a lot about this stuff. I would like to hear what she thinks." Thanks for your kind words Mary. Intel's x86 architecture provides an easy venue to grow this industry and it has the potential for critical mass through standards and there's an entire existing industry already built upon it. RE: "Thanks to you, Paul, Tony, Amy, PB, John H, and all the others that post on this thread, this thread is still readable and where you can pick up a lot of valuable and useful information." Thanks a lot Mary. I'll be light on SI over the next 3 weeks as work is very busy, but I'm planning on attending the shareholder lunch around May 17th unless I'm out of town. Thanks for the PMs & emails from folks. Best regards, Amy J