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To: Khris Vogel who wrote (48871)	2/26/1998 2:18:00 AM
From: david jung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

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To: Khris Vogel who wrote (48871)	2/26/1998 9:26:00 AM
From: Burt Masnick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

At home I have a 90 Mhz Pentium (2.5 years old) running Win95. At work I have a 133 MHz Pentium (6 Months old) running windows NT. Both are very slow when you run big applications. At home I run PhotoSoap which I use to scan in, crop and enhance the pictures I scan into my family tree. PhotoSoap is written for MMX and runs pretty slow on my machine, although it does a lot and it does it well. At work I have some pretty big Microsoft Project files and that too runs annoyingly slow on updates. After you change one task it takes a while for the changes to ripple through the entire schedule. Runs annoyingly slow. The real need for speed indicates that at a minimum a 266 MHz PII is the correct machine for business and maybe a faster one at home. That's the way the world is today. The next generation of software will do more and require even higher speeds. Can I get by with what I have. Yup. Do I like it. No. Will I be getting a new machine pretty soon at home. Yup. Burt

To: Khris Vogel who wrote (48871)	2/26/1998 1:43:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Khris, Re: "Gee, and there was somebody telling Thomas Watson that nobody should ever need a computer, too." Wasn't it Watson Sr. himself, back in the forties, when the first computers were made, when asked how many the world might need, didn't he say "about five"? Also, DEC Robert Palmer's predecessor and DEC founder Olson: "why would anyone ever need more than 32K of memory?" Mainframes have been around a lot longer than PC's. Demand for MIPS in them was, is and will in the future be, insatiable. The same will be true for PC's, workstations, servers and as Paul Engel calls it "Big Silicon". Tony