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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (67685)	11/1/1998 5:49:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 186894

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (67685)	11/1/1998 10:52:00 AM
From: John Koligman	Respond to of 186894

As far as 'home' servers and networks are concerned, CPQ has been talking about it for some time now. I hear that a solution with everything necessary (built in) is imminent. I would love to have an ADSL driven network working over the phone lines already embedded in the walls. One phone line would do it, high speed internet access for multiple machines in the home, and you can even talk on the phone at the same time. For many, two phone lines will no longer be needed. John

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (67685)	11/1/1998 1:04:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tench, >Re: Guess who's pushing this technology? That's right, Intel! It's too >bad this kind of home networking via phone jacks wasn't available >back in my college days when my roommates and I were duking it >out in Command & Conquer. >It's interesting how Intel's efforts to expand the Intel (x86) >architecture also benefits AMD indirectly, since the benefits can be >realized with either Intel or AMD products. But of course, this is part >of the brand-name strategy that Intel is pursuing that is sorely lacking >in the AMD camp due to lack of funds. You are wrong again. The company that has developed it is NOT Intel. Intel, AMD and National have licensed it from a bay area start up. Products should start appearing next year. In terms of the Brand name strategy, you can argue that folks like HP, Compaq,IBM have a good enough BRAND name and consumers will be happy to buy their products either with AMD inside. In fact beginning consumers who tend to buy retail, and most swayed by TV advertising have defected in droves to AMD CPU's. Just look at the sales numbers for September. It is elitist folks like you who cannot imagine lower priced computers and servers who are on the short end of the trend to low cost ubiquitous computing. Just like the sub-$1000 computer market, which was dismissed by the Intel folks. Folks like you dismiss the price sensitivities of the business market. It is true that major US companies like to purchase high end expensive machines. However most job growth and technology growth is with small business. Many of whom are extremely cost/performance sensitive and many of whom will be happy to purchase machiines based on alternate CPU's. I suggest to you that by end of next year a 500-600Mhz CPU with 256K DRAM and 10Gb Disk and 100Mb ethernet etc will sell for $1000 range. In todays terms that's not a thin server, that's a pretty hefty machine. Regards, Kash. I