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To: William T. Katz who wrote (5026)	7/2/1998 11:33:00 PM
From: Frank Sheridan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

I did some quick research on VM Labs and their Project X - overall I'm not impressed. Even if this thing pushes sixty whomptillion googlepixels per allosecond the fact will remain that it will not be a PC and will not be compatible with PC software. This means that vendors will have to do porting of their software to this box - software that they have already ported to GLIDE and OpenGL. Believe me, if this thing even BEGINS to seem like real competition uncle Bill and the boys from Redmond will make sure that PC's can do everything that this box can do, more of it, better, faster, and cheaper. DVD is already coming to PC's, and Microsoft is quite aware of the movement towards "appliance" computers. These guys would have to beat uncle Bill, uncle Andy, and everyone else in the PC industry. Boy, they sure know to pick their competition, huh? VM Labs will eventually end up as a small grease spot in the treads of the PC juggernaut. Remember, the sub $500 PC will be common by Xmas, and that will be with a DVD rom drive. Unless the turmoil in Asia causes the prices to fall even farther......