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To: P.T.Burnem who wrote (45799)	1/16/1998 1:59:00 PM
From: Jim Lamb	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

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To: P.T.Burnem who wrote (45799)	1/16/1998 2:43:00 PM
From: Randy Ellingson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

The idea that Intel can make business apps such as OODB's run faster by adding 70 new MMX instructions is laughable. That said, I have little doubt that Intel will continue to dominate the high end of the x86 market. The problem is that low-end x86 CPU's are perfectly adequate for running the vast majority of today's PC applications. Also, for the average PC buyer, more memory is a better investment than a faster CPU. I have little doubt that the applications requiring high-end processors (and next generation and thereafter processors) will continue to arrive. If the entertainment world goes digital, processing power and speed in general will be needed as much as it is when you wish your PC would search your HD faster. You can tell me the bottleneck isn't the processor, but it's faster to do many things on a computer that has a faster processor. Randy