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To: Justin Banks who wrote (3465)	11/6/1997 5:22:00 PM
From: vincent bilotta	Respond to of 14451

Justin, i totally agree with your assesment of NT and i dread the thought of it comming into my life, but how do you feel about SGI being the player that corrects some of the shortcommings of NT like MP and I/O and a few other things that IRIX does best? do you see an era when SGI/NT boxes pay for the development and building of premium products? will the justification for high end R&D be that whatever is developed can be amortised down at the loathsome mass market? ahhh, the irony, to be subsidised by the unwashed. vincent

To: Justin Banks who wrote (3465)	11/6/1997 5:24:00 PM
From: Klaus B. Biggers	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 14451

>SGI isn't building an NT box because the performance is good, it >has good technology, or it is really stable. We're building a >NT box because people are buying it, despite it's shortcomings. As long as you're comfortable with that. I didn't realize that SGI viewed their customers that way. Usually the employees of successful companies believe that the product they are delivering is the best out there, not just an inferior product that the customer thinks he wants. I haven't ever really heard the sales pitch that "well, it's poor technology, it's unstable, and the performance sucks, but you want it, we'll sell it to you." >You and Paul should go bowling. At least the check wouldn't bounce. -klaus