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To: divvie who wrote (1741)	8/31/1998 10:42:00 AM
From: Lucretius	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2578

I love this POS!! Die DELL die (G) See ya'll at $10.

To: divvie who wrote (1741)	8/31/1998 12:30:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2578

Hi divvie; Glad to have someone (along with rudedog) agree with me on the consumer stuff. Like I say, I'm a hardware guy, not a software guy. But my observation on hardware integration revolutions is that they always march up through increasing prices (and performances). In other words, I expect to see very cheap NT platforms out there. It will take around another two years, so I'd be looking for them around 4 years from now. The reason why integration waves eventually wash through higher performance machines is that it is almost always slower to send a signal through a wire on a printed circuit board than to send it through a wire etched onto an integrated circuit. Because of this, when it becomes possible to put a given digital logic device on a single piece of silicon, it is done if performance is an issue. A side consequence of this improvement in performance is a reduction in price. So I think that the wave hits the NT hardware as well. On the other hand, my comments are only about the hardware. It is possible that the software will remain expensive. In fact, that would be my bet, as that is where the proprietary part of the system design lies. (Intel's hardware monopoly is broken.) If multiple processors are required for NT, then the integration improvement is to put multiple processors on a chip. -- Carl