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To: Kevin Linder who wrote (126)	11/11/1998 2:08:00 PM
From: Frodo Baxter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1989

You're confused. You're assuming bandwidth is the bottleneck, when it almost never is. No one disputes the importance of adequate bandwidth. Your contention that bandwidth expansion has not kept up with technological progress in CPUs, drives, DRAM is just plain wrong (the one exception is obviously Internet bandwidth). Because there is an incremental cost to adopting a wider highway, it is not rolled out until the last minute. Even then, "last minute" applies to highly artificial maximum burst load conditions. For example, even the fastest UltraDMA/33 drives today can only sustain a data transfer rate less than half 33MB/s... on contiguous data, located on the outer track, without any head seeking. Also, your paean to multitasking is a non sequitur.

To: Kevin Linder who wrote (126)	11/11/1998 6:11:00 PM
From: George A. Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1989

Kevin, I am always on at least two browsers and many times four or five. I think multitasking is more related to bandwidth and memory than data storage or cpu speed. I am running a Dell pentium pro 200 with 64 ram and am considering upgrading to 128 meg which is the max for my system. I am on a cable modem ISP and still crave more speed (smile), bandwidth to me is the driver for now. My HD is 3.2 gig and I have 2 full gigs left so I am ok for now storage wise. George