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To: tejek who wrote (284992)	4/21/2006 9:08:13 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572631

"I don't know what that is." Adam Osbourne was in the microcomputer industry from the beginning. I know he wrote books about the early processors and how to program them. Eventually he started a company that produced the first transportable computer, the Osbourne. Tiny screen, 5 1/4" floppies, weighed probably 25 pounds. 4MHz Z80, 64k of RAM. It was an incredibly popular machine. Any way, they hired this marketing guy from a soap company or something like that. At one of his first press conferences, he said words to the effect "if you think our machine is great, just wait until the new model is out!". Needless to say, that is what everybody did. There were a couple of delays and voila! Osbourne wasn't a company any more... So to "Osbourne" a product is to release enough details of a future product so that people are encouraged to wait until it comes out. It is generally considered a bad thing to do. Adam later resurfaced with a company call Paperback Software. There was a manual and it had the software in a little compartment in the back. No huge hulking box designed to push the competitors off the shelf. The software was generally simple with basic features. Did the job for most tasks. And was cheap($20-$30) compared to the normal $495 of the time. Eventually, Adam gave it up and went back to India. He died a couple of years ago.

To: tejek who wrote (284992)	4/22/2006 4:44:46 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572631

Ted, I don't know what that is. The "Osbourne Effect" is where a company previews a new product coming out sometime in the future, but the preview hurts current sales because customers now want to wait for that new product. Intel is being very open with regards to Conroe's performance and how it will turn the tables on the Intel-AMD competition. This is unusual for Intel, since they're usually pretty vague on exactly how much better their upcoming products will be. My opinion is that Intel is doing this on purpose, taking a little pain now for higher returns in the future. If it means people will put off purchasing either Intel or AMD now, so much the better as long as they end up with Intel Inside later. Tenchusatsu