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To: Charles Hughes who wrote (20011)	6/13/1998 5:35:00 AM
From: nommedeguerre	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Chaz, >>They actually made extra-cheap versions of things for export to the US that would never be sold in Japan. I think it was Panasonic that wanted to enter the U.S. Market for TV's but the cost of establishing a chain of repair stores was prohibitive so they did the only thing they could: Build TV's that didn't need to go to the repair shop. I have a portable Panasonic TV that was purchased by my dad in 1970 (I think) that still works, which is remarkable considering it still has the original tubes. Cheers, Norm

To: Charles Hughes who wrote (20011)	6/13/1998 1:20:00 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24154

Charles- When I first posted the 50's Detroit analogy I was thinking how that deliberately producing an inferior product generates sales e.g Win98 has less bugs than Win95 so I'll pay the $100. and upgrade. I wasn't aware that the imports then were inferior too. I was impressed with the first Japanese import I drove in 1966. It was as Datsun 4 door sedan I rented at LA airport. Accelerating onto the freeway I remember thinking this car is something else. Your point about the quality coming later raises an interesting point. Will someday Microsoft offer a premium quality product. NT is premium but as far as quality goes that is only relative to Win95. My feeling is that BeOS is quality. It's incomplete but I suspect that the missing pieces will arrive with the same quality as the original. This makes it interesting because as an upstart you can afford quality as growth comes from increasing market share not churning your customers. I 'm also thinking with BeOS's speed and multiprocessor capability it may become the platform of choice for Internet servers based on performance. Harvey P.S. Check this out for dual PPro motherboard onsale.com BeOS compatible. P.P.S. PPro 180's are in the $90 range. Most are reliable at 233MHz.