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To: Frodo Baxter who wrote (2789)	3/12/1998 2:16:00 AM
From: Pierre-X	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9256

Re: Standards; "Market Consensus"; The Smart Ones Ornery, is it? <GG> You said: FYI, Intel always dictates the standard well in advance of mass market introduction. Hmm, name some examples of that? You said: What you're seeing now is the market process of getting to consensus. Like the market process for consensus in flavors of Unix? Or the market process for consensus in wireless modulation? Or the market process for consensus in DSL? 1394 Firewire? DVD-RAM? 56kb? Messaging? HTML? Hi-cap floppies? I submit for your thoughts my belief that the strong players should observe what is going on, think through where the market needs to go, and enforce a standard by muscle. You said: p.s. if Intel is dumb, who's smart? Microsoft. God bless, PX

To: Frodo Baxter who wrote (2789)	3/12/1998 2:46:00 AM
From: Pierre-X	Respond to of 9256

Re: Ornery I'm just frustrated with Intel because they seem to be ignoring or overlooking my favorite pet technology, speech recognition. <g> I seriously think they're making a big mistake here. SR has killer-app written all over it, and man, is it ever CPU-hungry. In keeping with my horse's mouth philosophy, I tried just about every SR package out there. In fact for a while I was writing my SI posts using Dragon NS <g>. Note the past tense. It was the best of the bunch, but back to the keyboard, me, now. God bless, PX