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To: Arrow Hd. who wrote (3849)	9/17/1998 1:06:00 PM
From: J R KARY	Respond to of 8218

IBM displays the future , a hand held computer, but is it brain dead The pending dual gov't actions (DOJ/FTC) against MSFT and INTC this time will benefit the industry . For example , IBM , mostly free of its consent decree , helps its competitors INTC/MSFT and honors them in its new hand-held PC: " Developed at IBM's Japan Yamato Laboratory, the Wearable PC is about the size of a portable CD player, weighs 11 ounces, and has a one-inch 340MB hard disk drive, a Intel 233Mhz MMX processor, and 64MB of RAM. IBM said the computer is only a prototype at this point, but the company may manufacture them in the future. Most small computing devices on the market run handheld computer operating systems, such as Window CE or the Palm Pilot's PalmOS. However, IBM's Wearable PC runs Windows 98 and has all the functionality of a notebook computer. " wired.com Well I certainly hope the DOJ/FTC takes notes on how well a 40-year restrictive consent decree can bring about altruism . Jim K.