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To: davesd who wrote (9660)	10/26/1997 8:07:00 PM
From: Donald B. Fuller	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

>>John, what apps are coming out now or in 1998 that will drive the need for faster PC's in 1998?>> Until the computer can boot up, open or alter any graphic intensive program in a nanosecond, there is incredible room for improvement, even if not one single new app comes along. Have you ever really paid attention to how slow computers actually are? Even the new ones? If you do anything that requires a graphic or 3D app, there you sit, drumming your fingers while all those 1's and 0's are flying around. Try working with a couple of 15 meg power point files on a 150mhz pentium machine w 40 megs of DRAM. Its about as fast as a pregnant cow. Oh, that's another thing. I've worked with Computers that have up to 128 meg DRAMs that still don't do stuff as fast as I'd like. I think the noticeable improvements are related exponentially, not linearly, to hardware improvements, meaning you really need 10x the power rather than double the power, to be truly impressed that the thing has improved. This means they will never perform fast enough and the cycle will last until the cows come home and the chickens come back to roost, IMHO. That's what I like about this industry. The myth that these idiot analysts seem to buy into is that there is some computing performance level that is good enough. There isn't. Don