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To: John H. Kurz who wrote (19815)	5/29/1998 10:29:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

I'm not the least bit concerned about the government actually taking down Wintel. Neither am I, because that's not what the government is trying to do. The talk about breaking up Microsoft is mostly speculation based on the idea that other remedies will inevitably fail. Aside from which, to repeat as usual, Microsoft and Intel are not all that similar. Intel's got competition, Intel's got good engineering, and Intel has an entirely different idea of how to deal with antitrust law. That last beginning with the novel concept that laws should be obeyed. At that time if you considered the PC useful for anything the managements in big business thought you were crazy, and would spend only token amounts to further the use of PC's Uh, that would be pre Visicalc? People in business found that pretty useful. That puts you pre IBM-PC, pre-DOS, and so on. No way are they going to let the government screw up their system. Now Wintel is "the system"? Question authority, I say. They being Reggie's socio-economic majority perhaps? There was this poll of CIO's done by Merrill Lynch, you know. Most of them thought antitrust vis a vis Microsoft was a good idea. What really bothered me was the article published on the Intel thread that indicated that microprocessors may be obsolete. It had to do with a Chinese idea of using cheap memory chips in a certain way with a little different programing that eliminated a lot of steps the processor now does. You're going to have to be a little more specific on that one. There are lots of ideas out there, but conventional von Neuman computer architecture is sort of like the internal combustion engine. I'd say rumors of the impending death of the microprocessor are greatly exaggerated. As for the Chinese threat, I take it seriously enough, they're certainly an economic giant in the making with an unlimited supply of human capital. Highly motivated and intelligent too. Their dominance is likely to become clear in other areas much sooner, though. With China, I mostly think our government should pay attention to somebody's interests besides Bill's when it's time to negotiate. Sorry, another repetition. Cheers, Dan.