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To: Andy Thomas who wrote (21327)	11/10/1998 1:47:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 24154

Andy, good to see you back here, I'm always worried about you being dragged away somewhere by lawyers. You can always say you can't remember, your stuff goes back a lot longer and always seemed pretty obscure to me. Or maybe a higher net worth is required for deposition dependent amnesia. Facts can be inconvenient. The fact is that, as a percentage of the total cost of a machine, the OS has gone up considerably while the hardware has gone down in price. Well, I always got to quote Ronald Reagan, facts are stupid things. It's certainly true what you say about hardware and software, though. And those hardware guys have actual manufacturing costs, too. Intel went out and replaced all those "low quality" Pentiums with the obscure floating point bug, and these days the overclockers are all having fun running certain "low quality" Intel parts at 50% over their rated speed. But with the integrity and uniformity of the Windows experience, you better be ready to shell out for the next release. Some day, it might suck less! I guess you weren't kidding when you said you burned your bridges. Got any friends left in the company? How's morale holding? We're always up for juicy insider gossip. Then again, discretion is probably the better part of valor, professionally speaking. Cheers, Dan.

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (21327)	11/10/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: ed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

So, you are telling me that if the price of gas drops 30%, the price of autos will have to drop 30% too !!!!! Whether the software is cheap or not is not based on the price of hardware , but the affordability of software of today comparing to that of five years ago. It is people who bought software !!!!!!!!!!!

To: Andy Thomas who wrote (21327)	11/11/1998 12:36:00 PM
From: Reginald Middleton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

<It's also funny to see a 486 with 8mb of RAM and Win 3.1x run faster than a pentium II/450 with 128mb of RAM under win98.> I hope you don't truly believe this. Let's have a contest downloading an 8mb graphic from the internet and rendering 3D drop shadow special effects in 32bit color mode, you use Win3.1 and I'll use Win 98. After that we'll play a quick game of Quake. We can even use the same hardware. The OS has a world of difference in performance. Raw speed on simple tasks are not a realistic comparison.