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To: Stewart V. Nelson who wrote (4702)	1/24/1998 3:11:00 PM
From: CMS27	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10479

>>Not so great when your computer crashes and you can't turn off your lights or stereo! Sounds great but in practice could get messy.<< Stewart have you ever heard of mission critical systems? A business's total dependecy on computers? Look pal I'm all for ending the mud slinging here and discussing issues, but you're all to obvioulsy just throwing out any negative thought you can conjur up. Please spend an additional 5 minutes thinking up scary stuff so that it is at least thought provoking and somewhat challenging to respond to. I work in the HVAC field, an area where this chip has multitudenous potential. We already start chillers and boilers that heat and cool office building of millions of square feet with computers. There is a very simple way of overcoming a malfuntiong computer, it's called a toggle switch over ride and it costs about a $1.50. By the way an energy management system requires a whole host of cards which could easily be replaced by this chip. The communications card needed for a centrifagul is about a $1,500 adder. A simple chip soldered onto the control board, that can talk to any PC running a browser is frankly astounding. Buildings have PC's dedicated to just energy management, running proprietary software just to start and stop stuff. Running the equipment on a Net+ARM chip, my service men could run a diagnoses from across town sitting in their truck on a laptop and cellular modem running Netscape. And if it doesn't work you tell the building engineer to go flip the toggle switch! Scott