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To: fishweed who wrote (7864)5/22/1998 11:34:00 PM
From: Hal Rubel  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 74651
 
Monopoly Innovation

RE: "THE REAL INNOVATION! The multi-monitor feature ..."

Innovation?:
More like nice improvement. Right? Doesn't innovation mean something new under the sun? A new direction. Where do you suppose this idea may have come from? Why did it take so long?

If Microsoft defines every enhancement or competitive adaptation as an innovation, might that make them seem like an innovator when they are in fact monopolistically slow to evolve?

When Henry Ford, the last to do so, finally began to offer cars in colors other than black, was that an "innovation"?

We can say that this years model is better than last years model, but mere self-comparison is not innovation.

HR



To: fishweed who wrote (7864)5/23/1998 12:57:00 AM
From: FR1  Respond to of 74651
 
"USB/or the Universal Serial Bus, new in Win 98. It does away with the IRQ bottleneck, "

Actually the IRQ bottleneck was solved some time ago. You simply use a SCSI card. It consumes one card slot, one IRQ, and allows you to connect 14 peripherals. Need more? Stick in another SCSI card. The USB is neat, though, and will become a standard.


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