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To: Joe NYC who wrote (43416)	12/30/1997 8:05:00 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Joe,>>>I am sure if the computing power was scarse, people would try to figure out some way to share or resell the surplus, but I guess the computing power is so cheap, it's not worth the effort.<<< I believe they are working on this as we speak at Cornell University. All the computer resources connected to a network when not in use will be shared and used by someone or program that can use it. For most of us surfing the net, we can't imagine the requirements of some modeling or optimzation programs and the cpu resources that is required. Even in large organizations, sophisticated inventory or shipping optimization programs are not to this day that common. Even in the more mundane accounting programming area, there are programs that corporations run overnight and on weekends because they do not have the capacity to run them during working hours. If you go to any major corporation, you will find mindbloggling backlog of computer systems that need to be developed that exceed the resources available. As for the consumer and the SOHO markets, most have us have been using a computer, seriously, for less than 3 or 4 years as opposed to large organizations(government, institutions, and businesses) where they have been using computers as a way of life for more than 30 years, we are still at the exploring stage. However, it will not be that long before, we too, will be demanding (more in a different way) multiprocessing, full motion video, audio, 3D, multimedia and other cpu, bandwidth, and dasd instensive applications. I do not see, anywhere within the next twenty five years, that we can be satisfied to any degree with any of the potential bottlenecks (i.e, cpu, bandwidth, or dasd - or some kind of memory type stuff) being diminished. The industry is not going to approach this on a serial basis. Most of us experienced only on a standalone computer device really have no idea what the demands are coming down the road even 12 months from now much less 2 or 3 years out - and I'm arrogant enough to include Bill Gates in this category (although he is probably somewhat more knowledgeable than many on this thread). Mary Cluney