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To: Moominoid who wrote (1922)	9/11/1998 8:53:00 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 2578

Hi all; A couple of more articles on the future of PCs for those interested: New specs create the 24-hour-a-day PC By their very nature, consumer-electronics devices are immediately available for use 24 hours a day, typically spending most of their time in a low-power, standby mode. When the phone rings, you don't expect it to have to boot before you can answer it. As the PC merges with the telephone, the CD player, the VCR, the TV and the DVD player, it needs to match their capabilities, and give the consumer something substantially better than they get with separate, standalone units. techweb.com All work and no play makes dull markets Most people point to developments in consumer electronics-new audio and video entertainments, like home theater and high-definition TV-and the vehicles for delivering them (DVD, set-top boxes, DirecTV, cable, ADSL) as among the best markets for semiconductors. Yet there are indications that none of this will fill the gaps in demand left by the stall of the PC market. techweb.com -- Carl