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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (43395)	1/3/1998 4:12:00 PM
From: stak	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

#3 Software waiting for Hardware For a long time hardware was behind software. The software would run or load at very slow speeds. Game makers would have to wait for better graphics cards or sound cards etc. in order to get the most out of their software. When the pentium came along though, the balance changed to the point where the hardware was using the software very effectively. Now the CPU is waiting for apps that will take advantage of the new speed gains. Unfortunately none has come to the desktop PC. It was written in an article that home desktops don't really need all the extra power in the fastest pentiums to run the software well. Probably its true . A P100 with 16MEG ram, 4*CDROM, 28.8K modem,and a 1GIG hard-drive and graphics and sound card is perfectly fine for the majority of users. Witness the huge demand for sub 1000$ PCs recently. 40% of the market? I see only one exception to the rule and that is with voice recognition. (soft DVD has a chance,some say) Voice recognition could use huge improvements in CPU speed . That likely is a big understatement. Sure good noise cancellation headsets and a 32 bit wavetable soundcard would be great too. "Intel's business model is predicated on being able to keep its price points high and moving the technology ahead rapidly, "he notes. "But we are at the point where corporate users don't need any more horsepower . . . they just want a given performance level at lower cost." Weekly News Analysis for Senior Industry Executives Monday, Dec. 8, 1997 Vol. 6, No. 26 c 1997, CMP Media Inc. By Robert Henkel Microsoft is likely to benefit most from hardware waiting for killer apps that use the CPU fully.Soft DVD isn't going to save the day. Pushing faster cpu's will only bring Intel to the wall faster. Edge Microsoft.(The Pentium Pro suffered from the lack of a proper O/S to take advantage of its special circuitry)Is Mr. Grove still ticked??? No,of course not.