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To: Arv who wrote (4889)	5/18/1998 4:26:00 PM
From: ramin shahidi	Respond to of 14451

Arvind, I don't know any specifics about their sales methodology..But I think, the only draw backs that SGIs ever had was: 1) their price and 2) their compatibility with the rest of the world. Even though marketing is always a strong factor, I think, that if SGI can address the two issues on above with their Visual PC line (which looks like they will).. Their computers should sell like hot Cake. Because the fact remains that despite for the stocks to be close to the all time lows, SGIs remain to be the best computers on the planet... keep in mind, this is just one end-users opinion.

To: Arv who wrote (4889)	5/18/1998 6:21:00 PM
From: Greg Jung	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

SGI will sell the VisualPC through direct sales, assembled by contract. The basic IO will not run through the bus, but via the interconnect. I don't know if the video adapter would be a direct line off of the motherboard or via a PCI card - I suspect the latter. SGI drivers will be included in the Windows NT CD that everybody gets from Microsoft. There will be no ISA slots, only some PCIs. You can get single- or dual-processor for it, I suspect on the same main board. Current direct3d and openGL code will run, and the newer Fahrenheit will be a synthesis of these, as well as the two higher-level interfaces. Thats about all I know. Greg