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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (48285)	2/20/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Mary, would you believe that I talked to a friend who is a broker at Smith Barney and she told me that they are still using 286 machines on their desks? Amazing. While I realize that one anecdotal situation does not constitute the overall market picture, it reminds me that when the next upgrade cycle begins it will do so in spades....bp

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (48285)	2/20/1998 5:43:00 PM
From: David S.	Respond to of 186894

Mary, What you are asking for is what they are giving you. The same P6 architecture, but different level machines, scaling from the cheap home PC, the high end home PC, business and higher education models, workstations and servers, and PC chip based mainframe systems. ...... Now perhaps at the beginning, when they introduce the next level, 64 bit Merced chips still under development, they will target the higher end for some time, but eventually that architecture will also track down to the lower end, just like the P IIs are suddenly in <$1000 machines. I would think they want to take their time on the next revolution as they need to collect some profits from the P6 level, and anyways AMD is about to become deadmeat if not crippled from trying to keep up. Regards, David S. PS: Looks like INTEL is forming a classic cup and handle formation as was predicted by others last week. The handle is rising steeply and should carry through $100 per share. Not much of a believer in technical analysis, but this seems dead on.