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To: Paul Engel who wrote (44293)	1/7/1998 3:16:00 PM
From: Shahen Petrosian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Paul, > Intel is putting enormous resources into insuring that full blown, > enterprise level 64 bit UNIX O/S will be available in may flavors to help > get MERCED designed into major corporate enterprise accounts. Interesting! So, OS vendors don't have to wait until 1999 to start porting to MERCED? How much preparatory work can an OS vendor complete before the chip is in production? How is this achieved? Thanks in advance, Shahen Petrosian.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (44293)	1/8/1998 2:58:00 AM
From: Greg Luke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

So, I am hearing that the future money is with networked computer system and the individual pc is not worth a software manufacture's effort to put up competition against Windows 98, if it ever arrives? Or are you saying that the battered software companies will hang their hat on the UNIX O/S for an individual pc windows system? Would not it be wiser for a software mfgr to produce a product like Intel that is compatible with, but superior to, the MSFT products? I know from Cisco, Oracle, Sun, and the rest, some will be winners but most will be loosers. I only wish I knew which had the inside track, and which had the most imaginative programers. One thing I have seen, no one wants to use one operating system at work and come home and have to deal with a different system on their home computer. Guess that gives MSFT the edge. Thoughts? Greg