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To: Adam Nash who wrote (14278)	6/3/1998 11:28:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

Adam, Dual and even triple or higher boots are quite common in some areas, mainly for legacy apps. A professor I know uses the IBM boot manager to have a DOS, a Win3.1, a Win95 an OS-2 and a Unix boot choice on his system. Many programs have feet of lead in the Wintel world and were made in one system by some grad student, became useful and widespread in research circles, and the grad never upgraded to another OS. Many capable DOS programs from the 80's are still popular, and blindingly fast, on Pentium IIs , and there are seas on Unix programs in the same boat. World beaters, but stuck in Unix. So the multiple boot is not so bad. The latest partition magic(www.powerquest.com) has the IBM boot manager. For MAC ?? Bill

To: Adam Nash who wrote (14278)	6/4/1998 10:25:00 AM
From: X-Ray Man	Respond to of 213177

>I do however buy the argument that Mac OS X for Intel could >eventually gut PPC sales. Apple has to be ready to sell Intel >machines, and even then they'll see a significant revenue drop And this line of thinking for strategy concerns me. I think AAPL has the right thought: hedge on Merced, but punt on high-end of the Pentium line. Why? Because I firmly believe and have for some time that Intel is in trouble long term (this is starting to become apparent to the street), and the PPC will continue to open up a price performance gap. Why would you sell two machines for the same price with the same operating system, but with one (by that time) having only 1/3 to 1/4 the performance? On the low end, you will have Cyrix, rather than Intel, nipping at your heels. But APPL will never make any money selling those boxes. If it chooses to do so, they could sell the operating system as an upgrade or an OEM option. So, I not only don't see APPL Pentium boxes as likely, I see it as stupid.