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To: Esvida who wrote (3894)	12/29/1997 5:25:00 PM
From: Mahmoud Hussein	Respond to of 14451

A1Le, Sorry for mis-reading your post re: SGI chance to be GFX monopoly. Anyway my point is that application developers prefer OpenGL which though not a monopoly has the same level of acceptance that a monopoly would have created. Also how can we be sure that a PC GL accelerator 8 years ago would have found acceptance without enough 3D apps on DOS, on a 386 with ISA bus and 40MB RAM? It takes a tremendous amount of system resources to do 3D effectively. The desktop PC hardware OS and apps of today are far superior to what existed 8 years ago. Granted, SGI should have seen to move to NT a year ago and planned accordingly but I think it is still not too late. In my opinion SGI stock (1.2xBook) offers great risk/reward to long term investors. Short term and momentum buyers will have to wait for the sellers to be exhausted. I feel we are close to such a point and have taken the plunge. Good Luck trying to time the bottom. Mahmoud.