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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18698)	4/22/1998 11:43:00 AM
From: Gerald R. Lampton	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Hiring Bork was definitely a major coup, whose importance cannot be understated. As much as I personally do not care for him, I admit he is intellectually honest and analytically rigorous. He wrote "the" book on antitrust law Chicago style, "The Antitrust Paradox: A Policy At War With Itself." So Microsoft arguing with Bork about antitrust is going to be a lot like, say, Clinton arguing with James Madison about the original meaning of the Constitution. Bork will carry a lot of moral weight with the conservative judicial audience to whom the antitrust case will more than likely be addressed. But there is one chink in the armour. Bork's no technology guru. Check out these comments from Wired ( wired.com ): As for Bork, he admits to being less than savvy on high-tech matters . . . And then there's: But before Bork sits down in an attempt to rewrite the law, he will need to brush up on his knowledge of the Internet. "I am going to have to analyze something about this technology," he said at Monday's news conference. "My wife gets on the Internet, but she'll have to teach me about it." And, he probably has even further to go in understanding the process and economics of software development, which in my view is essential to analyzing barriers to entry in the OS market and whether Microsoft has monopoly power. Of course, Bork is sharp, and I'm sure he'll move quickly up the learning curve. And whether his having greater knowledge of these issues would in any way help Microsoft is debatable, to say the least.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (18698)	4/22/1998 5:24:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24154

Speed Counts, but the Price Tag May Matter More nytimes.com This is mostly on my off-topic dead horse, but there's a throw-away on topic line in there: I had to uninstall the ever-quirky Internet Explorer 4.0 to get Ziff-Davis's Winstone 98 performance test to run, but once I did, the results reflected the numbers Intel displays at www.intel.com/procs/perf/PentiumII/. Now, how did he do that uninstall anyway? Maybe Manes is suffering from the duality of man, and was as confused as everyone else by that add/remove, install/uninstall thing. On the other hand, maybe I should try it on my NT4 box, see if I can reclaim the extra 20meg of swap space that seems to always get eaten up. Who knows? Anyway, as long as I posted the off-topic ref, I may as well question the proprietary lock again. This column is mostly about a Micron 400mhz/100mhz bus PII: Though its $2,850 price, which includes a "17-inch" monitor, would have bought a far less capable machine just months ago, today's cheap models are good enough that most users might find it sensible to forgo top-dollar performance and save $1,000 or more. Or, you could spend $2000 less and buy the parts for a 233mhz AMD K6, though you might have to give up a few frills. All else being equal on standard business applications, increasing the processor speed to 400 megahertz from 233 results in not the 70 percent improvement one might expect, but only about 33 percent, thanks to bottlenecks beyond the processor's control. And that 233 mhz K6 is probably closer to a PII 233 (not a Celeriac) than you think. An interesting bit I stumbled on at another tech site (http://www.anandtech.com/) I'm running a K6 - 300 at 100 x 3.0, without ANY problems at all...here's something to keep you amazed at what AMD in combination with VIA (MVP3) has been able to achieve, at this setting the K6-300 gets a Business Winstone 97 score of 66.2! That is dead on the mark when compared to a Pentium II - 300, here we go...finally, some competition from AMD. I'm overclocking the chip now...more later... In case anyone is wondering, the story is that 100mhz helps a less on the PII chips with the backend cache bus than on on socket7 chips with. Not that the steady ramp up on the PII isn't impressive, but aside from gamers, a cheap 233mhz K6 is a pretty fast machine, and outruns the Celeron by a fair margin, except at Quake. Who needs Quake at 70 frames a second anyway? Cheers, Dan.