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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (56134)	5/28/1998 1:49:00 PM
From: Mark A. Stang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

>>So you are looking beyond all the bad news that will be launched by the DOJ suit.<< FTC, Not DOJ. Will likely be heard by an ALJ (Administrative Law Judge), if charges are filed. Impact on fundamentals = 0.

To: John F. Dowd who wrote (56134)	5/28/1998 2:49:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

John, Re: "Also you must believe that Merced as a 64 bit wide chip is going to revolutionize something. What will it be put to work doing ?" As a fellow Yankee Conference (at least that's what they used to call it when we were in school) alumni, let me answer your question by simply reposting a previous post of mine which contains Andy's (with some embellishment from me) answer to essentially the same question. This was from the recent stockholders' meeting. I added some italicized words to make clearer who was saying what. exchange2000.com Larry, Re: "Though the price drop this week really distresses me, as does AG's response in the shareholder meeting to why we need fasteer processors."the other poster with the Merced question What do you mean about AG's response? Were you there, or did you listen to an audio on the stockholders' meeting? I was there and the answer(s) were the right ones. me Something like sure, if what you are talking about is just doing Office 97 kind of stuff (word, excel, etc.), you can only type so fast, so who needs a faster processor. There are, however, applications that need all the power they can get, like: Andy Grove, paraphrased the rest is me, paraphrasing Andy's aps or putting in some of my own Internet servers Search engines Visual processing applications Word recognition, including in many different languages, so people around the world can communicate in their own language without a keyboard. Have you ever seen a Kanji keyboard? Word recognition, so that people without motor skills can use computers. Data warehousing Computer aided engineering (mine). Simulate the design of a new chip, or board, or whole computer, running OS software and applications,and changing the design until it's right, before committing any Silicon (building any chips). Computer Aided Design (mine), like design a car, change some aspects of the design, and get an immediate new picture on the monitor of what the new design looks like. (mine). Worse, simulate what a rocket taking off looks like aerodynamically. Inventory control, methods sheets storage and updating, etc., in a manufacturing plant (mine) Airline reservation systems (mine) Online transaction systems (mine) Insurance companies and banks programs that store all of their customers' data, including realtime transactions or coverage updates. All nationwide customers' data on one or a few computers.(mine) Weather prediction. Still, the world's fastest computers can't get it right (I know we can't get enough data to a computer fast enough, either). (mine) Enough. BTW, Andy and Craig had more reasons that the world always wants more computing power than it has at any given time. I forgot some of them, so I put in some of my own. It was obvious that the guy that asked the question at the meeting had no clue about the fact that there are other computers besides PC's. Tony p.s. I just thought of another great ap for the most powerful workstations with the best and fastest interactive graphics available...movies, of course. In Jurassic Park, the dinosaurs and their "blending" in with the humans were done on SGI workstations. Merced based W/S's will do these kinds of movies easily. Other movie examples which would not have happened without very powerful workstations are Godzilla and Toy Story. Now c'mon U of M, let's get with the program! Regards, Tony