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To: J. David who wrote (20571)	3/8/1998 12:05:00 AM
From: Night Writer	Respond to of 97611

J. David, Yes, absolutely correct. Business wants easier interface with the computer. They want to talk to it. They want to conference call with video on it. Language translation real time for conversations. They want real time reports on voice command. They want research results now! It is amazing what the potential is, when you think about it. NW

To: J. David who wrote (20571)	3/8/1998 3:31:00 AM
From: WeisbrichA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

JD, I guess you are not from the business world. Mr. Ginz's remark "Most people and businesses use PCs for spreadsheets, word processing, and the like." is valid. Walk through most commercial firms and you will find he is correct. I have NT4W running here on 16MB and every thing is quite adequate. Loads could be faster, but that is a disk function mostly. Excel certainly runs a hell of a lot faster than I can fill the cells. I cannot overflow typing into Wordperfect. I don't play games on this system. So why do I need faster than a 166 MHZ processor? I am certain that you engineers see a need for faster speeds. There is a whole class of machines called workstations for you. And, W98 is not going to make any difference in application speed. Special Audio/Visual applications may have a need for the 200MMX. But common business applications. NAH! System I/O, especially disk, still continues to be the bottleneck for virtually all business applications, stand-alones or clients or servers. The CPU has been in "Overkill mode" for some time for business applications. RW