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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (584)	1/22/1998 10:46:00 AM
From: K. M. Strickler	Respond to of 1600

Sun makes a very fine system! Their systems are screamingly fast at the present time. While I watch the companies, I have to also keep in mind that computer makers like Cray and Sequent which made extremely fast computers have faced all but disappearence from the market place. The Sun Workstation was able to perform a monstrous amount of work when networked together. Sequent was already developed as a multiprocessing platform and I believe could be scaled to 1024 computers. I believe that when the college student broke one of the latest encryption schemes by paralleling 14,000+ PC computers in a network type configuration to accomplish the break in a fairly short period of time. ( About 30 days, however not all 14K computers were on at the beginning. Had they been, the time would have been much shorter. ) The market is driven to a large part by price, as I'm sure you will agree. The Sun complex is more expensive as far as I'm concered. I couldn't afford to buy a Sun for my personal use, yet in my complex I can run NT Server, NT Workstation, WIN95, WIN 3.1, WIN 3.11, Coherrent ( UNIX type ). As for the competition between SUNW and MSFT, I will benefit in either case. This kind of competition will bring the best software and hardware to the market. I can't help but win-win ( hardware - software ) in this situation. MSFT certainly has the larger imbedded number of computers to run on. One of the advantages of MSFT in that the software runs on computers of all manufacturer not on just one platform. I don't know if you have followed the news about the purchase of the Digital Alpha chip by Intel. I won't discuss now how that came about, but this is a 500mhz chip. When this chip becomes widespread, as it will when the technology is manufacturing the 'latest and greatest' 3ghz chip sometime in the future. Speed and memory! Watch the manufacturers of this (INTC) since everybody uses this stuff. Food for thought.