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To: Investor A who wrote (25953)	4/16/1998 6:25:00 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

From the link you posted: Intel's demos at the launch were understandably targeted toward corporate computer buyers, but it was clear they were struggling--desperately--to find examples of business applications that actually needed the power of the new CPUs. The first demo depicted a 3D-surround video clip of a tour around the new Portland airport, a technology we've seen demonstrated running very well on Pentium 90s in the past. The second demo showed a data visualization application that did some light 3D graphing and animation of 3D spheres, again hardly worthy of anything more than a basic Pentium. A third demo depicted a 3D model of a car engine, composed of a relatively few phong-shaded polygons, with ambient lighting and no texture mapping, rendered haltingly in software on the new CPUs. In fact, all of the demos shown today would've been better served by the presence of a good 3D chip, and not a faster processor.