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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (17335)	2/9/1998 11:23:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

I hate to rain on your parade, but the sub-$1000 dollar PC's will be the king of the proprietary lock. Uh, will be? The sub-$1k PC is not exactly a future phenomenon, in case you haven't noticed. Aside from I don't exactly know how this would be raining on my parade. But of course, I'm sure you'll inform me how I'm the ad hominem master, and you are the calm, rational one. Just like I'm the religious cultists, and the believers in One Microsoft Way only pay attention to facts, stupid things that they are. If you did your research, you would know that Intel will be releasing a specialized PII without the secondary cache to the low end PC market (sub $800). This will effectively wipe out the non-proprietary slot I architecture, the Pentium chip, and AMD and CYRIX/NSM. Guess what, the market will go for it, because INTC will be injecting superior performance in lieu of the open, yet technically inferior (or at least slower) slot II. OK, Mr. crystal ball. Why is this stuff going to be faster, better, cheaper than what's out there now? The low end PII isn't exactly faster than the current AMD K6/233, now selling for $150 street price. The cheap PIIs will be slower. So why is AMD just going to go away? Because Reggie says so? Because a proprietary lock is a necessity in business? Because people are going to flock to the 16 flavors of Pentium II just like Bascom Robbins? The computers with alternate processors work just fine, and Compaq at least is glad they got somebody else to turn to when Intel puts the screws to them, unlike when old Joachim Kempin comes calling. Cheers, Dan.