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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: StockMan who wrote (27516)	1/1/1998 7:17:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577985

Stockman, Usually the network has an interface over the network for the web, so they can control and firewall it. I suspect they would not like a modem that could attach to a cell phone on a web PC, as a caller in/out could have the same access to the whole site that that terminal did, and with hackery they might get a lot further. The internal NCs will not have the safe guards that the firewall will have. In addition, often the only phones inside where the NC is located are system phones with gutted bandwidths. A consumer box would have a modem and no ether link card, IMO. It is harder for big builders like CPQ to beat the screwdriver shops. The big advantage they have is the bundled software bulk preloads, for shich they pay around $40-60?? for.(Win95, Office, encarta etc) And the screwdriver shop pays $85 for WIN95, and another $100 for the rest as OEM broken bundles. Bill