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To: Randy Ellingson who wrote (43388)	12/30/1997 3:45:00 PM
From: Ken Bobey	Respond to of 186894

>If you give me more CPU/computing power, I'll gladly use it. Links LS98 is always happy to have more. Almost all software developers are happy to have more speed. The race for speed won't slow down anytime soon. Agreed. As my developer friend says "no matter how much CPU is on my desk, it will never be enough". INTC $100 by APRIL 1998. Once they meet Q4 and beat Q1 things will start to move. I expect Merced will ship much early than the Street expects. Elevator going down Mr. Kurlak?

To: Randy Ellingson who wrote (43388)	12/30/1997 4:19:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Randy, If you give me more CPU/computing power, I'll gladly use it. Links LS98 is always happy to have more. Almost all software developers are happy to have more speed. The race for speed won't slow down anytime soon. I am with you, the more CPU horsepower the better. It's very much like horsepower in cars. 100hp is barely acceptable. Boosting it to 200hp, and you have a fine, good performing automobile. If you are a speed freak, you will pay extra 10 to 20K and get a 250 to 300hp sportscar. But you start to hit diminishing returns. Each additional hp is more expensive than the previous one. As an example, take a Winstone result of a 233 MHz system and calculate CPU price per Winstone. Than take a 300 MHz system. Calculate CPU price / Winstone of the difference, and you will see what I mean. But that is not all. Not only the price of additional MHz (or hp) goes up, higher you go in performance, your utilization of this additional power goes down. You could perceive and additional 33 MHz when going from 33 MHz 486 to 66 MHz, or even more when you went from 25MHz 486 to 50 MHz (non DX2) 486 chip. But you will have trouble distinguishing 300 MHz P-II from 333 MHz P-II. (by anything other than price) Joe