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To: J R KARY who wrote (6895)	12/18/1997 10:20:00 AM
From: X-Ray Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Don't forget, in discussing a timeline for Merced, that while it will likely appear in 1999, it is also clear it will likely be available only as an expensive high-end chip for the first year. So even if Apple ports Rhapsody to Merced, it won't compete with their desktop stations until 2000 at the earliest. Three years is a lifetime in the computer industry, long enough for PPC to gain market. Moreover, it is unclear if Merced will catch up on the low-price end to PPC, since clearly MOT and IBM don't plan to stand still while INTL and HWP develop new product.