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To: Mohan Marette who wrote (65987)	9/17/1998 4:44:00 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 176387

Here are some insights on possible PC developments from a friend on the Yahoo Finance DELL discussion board: isn (33/M/Chicago, IL) Sep 17 PC's or microcomputers were a revolution in data processing. Larry Ellison thinks the microcomputer is going to get simpler and stupider(excuse the english). That will make them less expensive and easier to use. I think the microcomputer will become easier to use via the operating system, but more robust under the surface. Most home computers are idle up to 85% of the time. With the USB interface and say NT 5 as the O/S, that idle time can be spent, running certain household functions like running the furnace, positioning solar panels, stuff like that. To handle that, you need a server like box, and an OS much more stable than the current NT releases. You'd never boot a machine like that(or certainly would not want to do so as often as I have to boot my win98 box). Dell is in a good position to take advantage of such trends. What is going to happen? I don't know. Larry Ellison is running his company into the ground. I have little respect for his opinion."