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To: Steve Porter who wrote (58886)	6/26/1998 8:28:00 PM
From: Dale J.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

If Intel moves completely proprietary it will bad for the entire industry (including Intel) leading to major fragmentation that will scare away consumers and developers.. look at AAPL.. Steve, Yes. I thought about it later and i think you are right. Intel needs the support of the many hardware, firmware and software developers, and they will only get that support if they allow others a piece of the pie. Kind of like MSFT. MSFT takes the center cut, but still leaves thousands of other software companies something. PS.. MSFT seems to really be in the corner of the Alpha and AMD guys right now.. maybe it's a show for the FTC or maybe they see this fragmentation coming and are covering all their bases now.. if that's the case Bill G is one smart SOB. Yes. There seems to be a serious disconnect between Intel/MSFT. I think MSFT was adamant that Windows CE be open to many chip suppliers. Just look how long it has taken Intel to support it. MSFT doesn't like to be dependent on any other company. My MSFT stock continues to soar. In fact half of my holdings in MSFT and amazingly I never bother to post on the MSFT thread.

To: Steve Porter who wrote (58886)	6/26/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Steve - Re: "If Intel moves completely proprietary.." Intel isn't completely proprietary by any stretch of your's or AMD's or Cyrix's imagination. Intel has developed new and unique electrical/mechanical interfaces to to connect their x86 INDUSTRY STANDARD COMPATIBLE processors to a motherboard. The Motherboard itself is COMPETELY COMPATIBLE - accepting ALL PCI cards, USB plug ins, ISA CARDS, serial/parallel I/O devices, and AGP cards. Tens of thousands of industry standard peripherals plug into these motherboards. Hundreds of thousands of INDUSTRY STANDARD SOFTWARE PACKAGES run on these Intel-based boards. INTEL IS COMPATIBLE. WAKE UP! The fact that you can't plug a Clones-'R-Us CPU into the INTEL CPU socket is a don't care for everybody in the world - except the Clones'R-Whining crowd. Paul