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To: Road Walker who wrote (46499)	1/27/1998 10:38:00 AM
From: Ibexx	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

John and thread, INTC is gathering steam fast.....It seems that "Major Broker" is one of our best contrarian indicators. What a laugh! Regards, Ibexx

To: Road Walker who wrote (46499)	1/27/1998 10:43:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Respond to of 186894

The 64 Bit question. John, Here is an excerpt from an article I saw in Forbes Digital Tool. To read the full article,please go to their web site and look of the the article titled,what else 'The 64Bit question'. ------------------------------------------------------------------- By Jeffrey S. Young s 64 bits the answer to the meaning of life, the universe and all that? How soon before we say good-bye to the big mainframe computers? It may be sooner than we think. A number of companies are working to develop the next generation of mainframe-caliber machines powered by microprocessors that Intel--in association with Hewlett-Packard--will release within the next 18 months. The "next big thing"? Big powerhouse computers run big operations, such as airline ticket reservations systems and ATM cash dispensing operations. It is not a world where Intel has made much headway. But the 64-bit microprocessors will usher in the era when the desktop PC can challenge the mainframe computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Desktop mainframes like these would make digital video, speech, and who knows what else easily possible. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Designed to handle 64 bits of data at a time (versus the 32-bit processor family Intel introduced in 1985), these chips include a breathtaking mathematical progression of capability. In terms of data path, 32 to 64 is merely a doubling. But in terms of memory address space--the room available to the microprocessor as its working instantaneous memory--the growth is from 232 to 264, a leap of enormous proportions with enormous implications. Desktop mainframes like these would make digital video, speech, and who knows what else easily possible. Mainframes like IBM's System 3090, the workhorse of the batch-processing world, operate and are built differently from your average PC. In recent years, the mini-computer and UNIX-based client-server workstations have challenged the mainframe but have lacked a powerful enough processor to take the next step. Today enterprise servers are a gaggle of boxes, running different flavors of UNIX, sold by a variety of vendors, each of whom already has a hardware chip: DEC's Alpha; Silicon Graphics' MIPS; Hewlett-Packard's PA-8000; Sun's UltraSPARC; and IBM's PowerPC. MIPS is the most vulnerable, a chip-making division with an increasingly marginal product offering. IBM reorganized its UNIX operation last fall, consolidating it into the mid-range systems business that includes the AS400, and, according to Tom Henkels, an analyst with the Gartner Group, "seems to have lost its interest in this business." That leaves H-P, Sun and DEC. All have chosen very different paths, and watching the battle take shape should prove very entertaining and, for the astute investor, quite profitable. \| continued...

To: Road Walker who wrote (46499)	1/29/1998 9:24:00 PM
From: Barry Grossman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Your post updated: FWIW, last eight trading days: -7 of 8 higher close -8 higher opens -7 of 8 higher highs -8 higher lows DATE CLOSING PRICE OPEN HIGH LOW VOLUME -------- ------------- -------- -------- -------- ----------- 1/29/98 82 80 5/16 82 7/8 80 1/4 18,091,600 1/28/98 80 7/8 79 3/4 81 7/16 79 1/2 16,765,900 1/27/98 79 3/16 77 7/8 79 9/16 77 3/8 14,678,300 1/26/98 77 11/16 77 78 77 11,173,800 1/23/98 77 3/16 76 7/8 77 7/8 76 1/2 14,046,200 1/22/98 76 1/2 76 77 1/2 75 15/16 12,474,500 1/21/98 76 11/16 75 7/16 77 11/16 75 3/8 17,353,800 1/20/98 76 5/16 75 1/8 76 5/16 74 7/8 12,493,000 1/16/98 74 13/16 75 13/16 75 7/8 74 5/8 14,820,300 1/15/98 75 5/16 74 7/8 76 3/8 75 1/4 13,363,600 1/14/98 75 7/16 77 77 74 3/8 30,990,500 1/13/98 76 15/16 76 3/8 77 1/4 76 1/4 24,308,700 1/12/98 75 5/8 70 13/16 75 11/16 70 11/16 30,974,100 1/09/98 71 7/8 74 9/16 75 71 7/32 22,007,200 1/08/98 74 5/16 72 1/4 74 13/16 72 1/8 18,934,800 1/07/98 72 3/4 72 3/4 73 5/8 71 9/16 13,845,200 1/06/98 73 1/8 73 7/8 74 5/16 72 11/16 12,077,400 1/05/98 74 1/2 73 1/16 75 1/8 73 1/16 19,592,100 1/02/98 72 5/8 70 11/16 72 5/8 70 1/2 10,231,800 ================== It feels like we're on an escalator heading to higher floors. Barry