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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dr. Saeed Assadi who wrote (31816)	4/13/1998 4:52:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1574004

Dr. Assadi, I know you only tried to tell me that it is good to have $500 computers, and yet yourself hesitate to get one. From my experience, a $500 computer would very well sit in the corner of a room collecting dust. I do not understand when you say "small people like myself make your research difficult". How so? And do you mean smallness by the amount of capital invested? Apparently you have not read my message thoroughly. This is, I am sure, due to your very busy schedule doing research in one of our nation's very prodigious labs and yet taking such short amount of time to reply to my message. I have stated that the Kalman Filter project to predict stock trend ended up in disaster for me. I do agree with you. I just would like to learn more about your non-linear statistical analysis. Why are you so protective of your model? Is it embarrassingly unpredictable as mine? Regarding to your Alpha machine, I am sure it is fast. The clean operating system certainly allows you writing C and C++ programs very fast. Are you sure you cannot write a C or C++ program on a modern x86 machine just as fast as the Alpha? I do agree with you that DEC machine is a great one. I would love to have one if it can run most MS software and cool games. When I was an aerospace engineer, our company purchased a lot of workstations just to do circuit simulation. Guess what? They all sat around collecting dust, because the engineers prefer to launch these applications from our desktop personal computers. Keep looking for originality that is more useul, John.