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To: Kashish King who wrote (932)	12/14/1997 6:07:00 AM
From: Bob Zacks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

Here is someone else who shares your central home comand center vue. Communications and networking equipment for home offices and small businesses are the next important wave of technology. Faster modems are a help, and this year there are intriguing new Internet and networking appliances for the SOHO market. In what may be the most unmistakable signal that this is an important new direction in technology, digital behemoth Microsoft is weighing in, backing a technology called HomeRun, due in 1998 from networking vendor Tut Systems, that will enable households to link PCs, peripherals, and other gear into a small, high-speed, local area network. The age of the "family area" network is at hand. Article : pathfinder.com

To: Kashish King who wrote (932)	12/14/1997 10:07:00 AM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 29970

I totally agree. Couldn't have said it better. That's where INTC wants to cover their backs. I don't criticize that strategy at all, In fact, it's where we're going. Doesn't matter where or what shape the box is. Doesn't have to be 3 feet from a $700 monitor or keyboard.Inevitably we'll have a wall-mounted function-auto-sizable screen(s) with voice input like what you see on Star Trek but better within 10 - 20 years. Convergence of pc and tv functionality is inevitable, but it is hopeless to retain the configurations of the past or to build the convergence on the existing installed tv base. The tvs don't have the screen resolution of the computer monitor which compromises usability. The question that isn't answered by Malone is how to get from here to there. He doesn't know how. I don't know how. INTC doesn't know how. So we all are trying to cover the bases. How it will be done is by discovery. I could tell you some recent grief I've had for committing the great error: changing a working MSFT app for the upgrade; specifically IE 4.0 to IE 4.01. Don't do it, or if you do it, thoroughly clean, scan, and defrag the disk, back it up, so you can reformat! the disk. It'll only cost hours. Why do I do it? For the hundredth time. Will I never learn? But that's for the "Evil Empire" thread. Thanks for your excellent response.