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To: George von Dassow who wrote (10648)	4/1/1998 2:42:00 PM
From: Marc Newman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213186

George, thanks for the post. They love their G3s at my friend's UC-Berkeley genetics lab too. To conserve bandwidth here, let me add this snip from Jim Cramer today on the near-term future of the yen: Put simply, I think the yen is in the fight for its life. I had been musing that this currency is about as sickly as I have ever seen, and then Ron Insana, who is quietly doing some of the most brilliant work on television at CNBC, brought up the thesis yesterday of hedge funds going against the Japanese central bank to break the currency, in the same way they went against the Thai baht, or a few years back, against the British pound. At first I thought it fanciful. The U.S. government would never stand for it. But when I looked over the last half-dozen statements emanating from Washington by Rubin and Summers, I realized that these guys have given tacit approval of a run against the yen by their constant berating of the Japanese central bank. Japan has massive reserves, but this currency is overvalued by probably 50 yen to the dollar. Talk about a pincer move: We threaten to block exports from Japan domestically, while international hedge funds bang the yen to 175 or 180 on the dollar. That would force structural change on Japan as its exports would pile up, courtesy of tariffs, and Japan would at last have to stimulate domestic demand with tax cuts.

To: George von Dassow who wrote (10648)	4/1/1998 4:53:00 PM
From: Linda Kaplan	Respond to of 213186

George. ALL memberships on SI were PERMANENTLY free until relatively recently. I wish people wouldn't blame the riffraff on the free memberships. Your post was a lovely contribution to our party. Linda

To: George von Dassow who wrote (10648)	4/2/1998 11:28:00 AM
From: IanBruce	Respond to of 213186

We tested out a bunch of different boxes. We bought G3 macs for one simple reason: they ran our software faster than anything else we could buy for the price. I've seen this for myself. I'm having a prototype peripheral device constructed at a division of United Technologies in Cambridge, MA. The mix there is about 50-50 between Macs and Pentium platforms. The CEO recently told me of his experience upgrading his own PowerPC 7600 with a G3 card from Newer Technologies. Not much of an experience - it took him all of 5 minutes to plug in the new processor card, reset the board, and install the drivers. Now, besides the Mac in his office, he also had a Dell Dimension XPS running at 233MHz. Just for laughs, he loaded the new versions of Maple V on both his newly upgraded Mac, and his Dell PC (both version are on the same CD-ROM) - and ran the speed benchmark. The benchmark is intense - thousands of calculations - not to mention rendering of dozens of complex 3D charts. This process took about 20 minutes on the Dell - pretty respectable, considering. The same benchmark on the newly "G3'd" Mac took 90 seconds. He couldn't belive the first time so he checked to see if the benchmark files were identical (they were), and ran it again, and again... and again. 90 seconds. Then he ran it on the Dell again. 20 minutes. Bottom line: Any plans they had to phase out their Macs and replace them with PCs have effectively been terminated. I seriously doubt that this is an isolated case. Ian Bruce New York, NY