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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (17213)	2/7/1998 9:11:00 AM
From: K. M. Strickler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Excellent points! I haven't been following the 'copper' path, and didn't even know about that technology. I was heavily involved with the semi-conductor route, and thought that I knew how it worked. Does the junction in the 'copper' transistor work about the same way as the silicon transistor? Is it a 'doped' process? Sounds real promising, that's for sure! I don't know how close they are to 'light', but that should really drop the power requirements! If IBM enters the marketplace again, will it be with 'proprietary' hardware as in the past, or will they stay with the open architecture? There is no question that IBM could build a 'box', but do you remember the PC Jr.? For a company with so much knowledge, that machine was pretty disgusting! It was pretty much 'trash' right out of the box. I lost a lot of respect for IBM when they did that! They knew, with all of their experience in office equipment, they were trying to 'cut a fat hog' using their 'name and reputation' to attract sales. I think they wanted the whole idea of 'personal' computers to 'go away', and users would have to 'sign up' for the 'big iron'! Didn't work that way, and now IBM is 'clawing' its way back. I'm not counting them out, but they made a couple of serious missteps, not the least of which was letting MSFT keep the software. I, for one, am glad because without that one, I'm not convinced that the 'home' (therefore 'my') computer would NOT be as powerful as it is. I would have thought that the TRS-80 and Comodore type computers would be the standard in the 'home'. Make no mistake about it, I consider the unit that I get to 'play with' to be a 'mini-mainframe;! The System 360's that I worked on didn't have this kind of power! True that was over 30 years ago, but 'power is power'! The advancement into the 'homes' is already way beyond anything that I could have imagined! In the mid 70's I started building an S-100 computer because I thought the home market wouldn't last and I wanted a computer that I could afford to use at home! Boy was I wrong! As for Rhapsody, it will be pretty hard to overtake MSFT in the market with 300,000,000 embedded systems worldwide! I wouldn't expect MSFT to stand still while IBM gets up to speed! Thoughts? Ken