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To: Paul Engel who wrote (57828)	6/12/1998 1:04:00 PM
From: L. Adam Latham	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul and all: Check out ccs.ornl.gov, which describes Oak Ridge National Labs' decision to acquire several SRC 6 Xeon-based supercomputers (SRC was founded by Seymour Cray before his death). Adam

To: Paul Engel who wrote (57828)	6/12/1998 1:45:00 PM
From: Dale J.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

re: <<I wonder what will happen to all those folks who feel a MediaGX or low end K6 machine is "good enough" to surf the web.>> Paul, they'll just keep surfing the AMD, NSM threads talking about all the money they are going to make. Oblivious to reality. <<Just think - in two years, folks will be saying "Who needs a 700 MHz Willamette - my 400 MHz Pentium II is just fine>> They've done it before. "Who needs a 386 my 286 is just fine.", "Who needs Windows 95, Windows 3.1 is just fine." "Who needs this internet thing, my LAN is just fine."

To: Paul Engel who wrote (57828)	6/14/1998 1:54:00 AM
From: stak	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

>>>If Chrome becomes the "cool" way to surf the web, then "surfing the web" will now require Intel's fastest hardware - 350 MHz or faster Pentium IIs.<<< sure when Chrome is available a 350 MHz Pentium will be a 500$ computer. >>>I wonder what will happen to all those folks who feel a MediaGX or low end K6 machine is "good enough" to surf the web.<<< probably not a whole heck of alot of either good nor bad will happen to them. >>>The end result is that software, seemingly always lagging behind the hardware, will ultimately evolve into taxing to the limits ALL CPU hardware.<<< nope, when Chrome is available it won't be taxing to the limits even the slowest cpu's on sale at the time. >>>Just think - in two years, folks will be saying "Who needs a 700 MHz Willamette - my 400 MHz Pentium II is just fine for surfing the web and writing letters to mom!"<<< yup, and in 2 years a Pentium 100 will still be fine, too, for writing letters to mom and surfing the web if one has a fast web connection. Bandwidth will rule over cpu speed