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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (20082)	6/17/1998 10:09:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

<Win95 runs OK on 16 megs and that AMD 486 100. Where's all the new pork coming in then. IE?> No it doesn't. It just runs. I can barely modify web pages or do any kind of corporate finance calculations. Win 98 makes it fly. Liek it or not, they did a good job. Or maybe 48 meg makes it fly. This sounds like a pretty uncontrolled experiment to me, Mr. truth-and-objectivity. Win95+16meg +AMD486, Win98+48meg+AMD 486, WinNT +80 meg + P133 - Win98 the clear winner after rigorous comparison in the Mind of Reg(TM). Nobody else seems to have found any big performance gains, but maybe they're all too busy selling advertising, and Microsoft isn't buying anymore. As for IE5 and its granules and personalities and whatever other neologistic terminology, I mean technology, comes with it, we'll see. There was some NDA involved, wasn't there? Cheers, Dan.

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (20082)	6/17/1998 3:13:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

>>>For those of you that wanted proof of the folly of following earnings, see rcmfinancial.com; I did look and it was interesting (!) I'm wondering about one thing though. I didn't notice the time frames for your correlations. My conclusion about this based on my experience is that earnings have a low correlation to stock price when the correlation is quantized at the quarterly reporting interval or more frequently. However, earnings to stock price with a 3 year smoothing of the quarterly earnings reports yields a much better correlation. From this I have concluded that earnings reports (except as one predictor of short term market sentiment) are fairly useless for the trader. However, they are very useful for the long term (hold for 5+ years) investor. Comments? Have a nice day, Chaz