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To: Paul Engel who wrote (62547)	8/16/1998 7:55:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, You are quite right about the USR palm computer. All the CE offerings seem to want to be full computers with rinky dink keyboards and thus they do all things poorly and no thing well. The Palm does a few simple things well, as they say a 1 trick cowboy, but one hell of a trick. I am quite happy with mine and I use a PC program called Time and Chaos from Isbister international(shareware but very capable and low in cost to buy) they have all the link and update and synch software you need for the Palm OS. I am trying to get another stand so I can have a stand at both places I operate from, been on order for 6 weeks, no stock, so you know they are shipping everything in sight. Another problem is the CE computers have battery lives of a few days and the Palm is good for months. Bill

To: Paul Engel who wrote (62547)	8/18/1998 10:36:00 AM
From: Jean M. Gauthier	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Hi Paul. I think INTEL, by using STRONGArm, can really be a force here. I do not think Microsoft's OS will be in the running though, as CE will always be TOO FAT. I think the Palm Pilot OS for handhelds, Java/Jini for set-top boxes, and win98/NT/Solaris for Desktop, INtel rules ! Just imagine. The Palm Pilot 4 or 5, with the STRONGarm chip, and it's proprietary OS. Hmmmmm I think the Pal Pilot, with it's 3rd-party support, is ready to increase it's dominance. CE is NOT THERE, and I don't think it ever will. I am not sure of this, but the lack of marketplace acceptance is quite revealing, don't you think ? More profits for Intel, as the more chips sold, including set-top boxes if possible, the more it prevails. Is is true [I think it is], the more STRONGarm chips sell in volume, the more INTEL would be able to amortize Fab 6. ??? Will Fab 6 be ported over to .25, and then .18 micro i.e yields ? Do you have any info at all on Fab 6 ? What is a good deal for Intel ? At least Alpha is now dying [good], and the got StrongARM out of it ... Take care Jean