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To: Mark Fowler who wrote (5084)	6/6/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Ps. get on board this train; isn't going to wait for no one. Mark, I am on board. Just on the short side:-) Glenn

To: Mark Fowler who wrote (5084)	6/7/1998 10:38:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Hi Mark Fowler; About those 2 or 3 major players that are gonna be selling books on the internet 10 or 20 years from now... Same sort of thinking back when PCs were young would have led one to expect Tandy (with the TRS-80) or Altair, (with the S-100) to be the major sellers of personal computers today. Fact is, the pioneers in totally new areas, (particularly ones where there is no patent protection) are not that often the survivors. And the undercapitalized pioneers get taken out by the big guys. Note Intel had patent protection, but a lot of companies even with patent protection do not survive. Zilog, who made the Z-80 processor chip for the TRS-80, got pushed out of PCs and into embedded processors. So why pay a high price for the pioneers, particularly the ones that don't have patent protection against competition? -- Carl