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To: stak who wrote (76057)	11/1/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

Stak, The history of computers supports the dominance of the general purpose computer. Special purpose products are by their very nature special purpose,i.e., restricted in the applicability to a wide range of applications. Most people do not like having to have 20 special purpose devices to master when one general purpose device can do it all. Regards, Jim Kelley

To: stak who wrote (76057)	11/1/1998 2:56:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 176387

RE: "I am simply wrong" about PC reversal Before you make your final correction to your forecast, I ask you to spend a couple of hours reading the newspapers, television channels, and data bases available free over the internet. Use streaming audio and video, preferably with both a fast and a slow mpu and with and without a video board. Remember that more and more universities are adopting web-based programs -- soon to be curricula. I am convinced that education at all levels will become web-based because it is so damned cheap. Remember that industry is hungry for people with professional qualifications, many of which can be earned over the web very cheaply. Remember that many companies are going to network-based businesses. As cheap band-width increases, big monitors become cheaper, and mpu's approach the GHz range, ask yourself if you would willingly give up any of these things for a Palm Pilot imbedded in a Q-phone? Its a nice extra, but most students and business people will insist on the real thing, especially if they have to pay for it themselves. Why pays someone $40,000 to $100,000 a year and try to save a few thousand by blinding him and restricting his bandwidth. You may be right in saying the PC is doomed, but I assert it is only because the student and worker workstation with HSTV converter is on the way. I have to spend several hours a day on the PC. I have a drawerful of laptops, cell phones and gadgets, which I rarely use. I want the biggest screen, the fastest computer, and the widest link I can get. The annual cost of the best is less than 1 per cent of my gross. As more and more people around the world find themselves, or can get themselves, into my position, the market for top-line PC's will burgeon. It is a Dellicious prospect.