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Strategies & Market Trends : Waiting for the big Kahuna -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bobby beara who wrote (18690)	5/19/1998 7:02:00 AM
From: William H Huebl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 94695

Bobby B, I remember 30 years ago when I forecast for Univac that we could expect a market for at least 25 huge supercomputers (in those days the 1108 and IBM 7094 were big systems and I must have been the laughing stock of the company. Today there are probably a hundred times that number throughout the world... maybe a thousand. The point of this is that to say the PC is dead may be premature. I hear the implicit assumption that the historical swing between centralization and decentralization is now reversing and we will go to centralized systems where our PC become intelligent remotes connected to the biggies. I think you are confusing data a computer power. To my mind the Internet provides the data and the PC the computer power... I think we will need even more powerful systems in the future... mine was top of the line two years ago and now I am looking at 500 mHz processors because mine is too slow for some of the algorithms I have for forecasting. The soapbox is closed. Bill