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To: exhon2004 who wrote (66993)	10/19/1998 12:30:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Greg, excerpt from the NY Times article that John Carragher posted: But the climate has changed. The big demand drivers are the Internet and electronic commerce, which are limited less by microprocessor power than by bandwidth. And on most of today's real world applications, there is little benefit in upgrading from a 166-megahertz Pentium to a 300-megahertz Pentium II. Intel is well aware of this and, in the conference call, mentioned tieing into the Internet trend as one of their top three "drivers" for success in 1999. Exactly what Intel intends to do, beyond continue network interface hardware development and investments into Internet related companies, I don't know. There have been a lot of rumors about buying 3COM. I hope not and would personally place that at a very low probability. From the conference call: - Andrew Neff...what are the drivers for 1999. Paul...1. Xeon...EXECUTE! 2. Tie to internet trend, client computing, etc. (ed. I didn't get this one too well). 3. Return of Asia. Tony

To: exhon2004 who wrote (66993)	10/19/1998 1:21:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I bought a 450Mhz PII for around $1,900, before upgrades. While not arguing that other buyers would emulate me, one compelling reason I went with more computing power than what my current needs dictate is to be prepared for whatever power hungry apps I may want to run in the near future. I'm running a Celeron 300A overclocked to 450. I bought a new processor and motherboard because I don't want to ever have to wait on a computer and I most certainly did with my Pentium-133 system regardless of what that idiot NY Times author says. I have enough of that waiting crap at work with the archaic VMS system we use.