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To: BillyG who wrote (37816)	12/15/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

Dell Boosts Corporate Notebook Performance, Functionality and Storage; Latitude Notebooks Now Offer More Memory and Module Bay Options, Planning DVD Availability for Q1 12/15/98 Business Wire (Copyright (c) 1998, Business Wire) ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 15, 1998--Dell Computer Corporation (Nasdaq:DELL), the world's leading direct computer systems company, today announced availability of new options -- including capability for up to 256MB of RAM, an LS-120 device for removable mass storage, and up to 12.8GB of hard disk drive space -- to increase the performance and functionality of its Latitude(R) corporate notebook computers. Dell also expects to offer DVD -ROM drives on its Latitude notebook PCs in the first quarter of next year. "Dell understands that corporate customers demand reliable and durable products, relevant technology and managed transitions. This is what the Latitude line delivers," said Doug MacGregor, vice president Notebook Product Group. "This understanding helped Dell become the leading provider of notebook PCs to medium and large businesses in the U.S in the third quarter, according to a recent industry research report(a)".

To: BillyG who wrote (37816)	12/15/1998 2:08:00 PM
From: J Fieb	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50808

BillyG, When I'm not working on CUBE/DIVI I study up on FC(fibre channel) and SANs. Yest. SGI. made an announcement on FC sans and here is a short excerpt from their partner Philips DVS regarding FC SANS ............. Film image data is the lifeblood of high-end post production. Ensuring data availability and integrity is essential to business survival," said Steve Russell, marketing manager, film imaging products for Philips DVS. "Our applications demand flexibility, so ways to consolidate storage, reduce storage management overhead, and ensure that vital film image data is safeguarded are critical. Our customers look to Silicon Graphics and its partners to provide leading technologies such as Fibre Channel-based switched fabrics to address the requirements of digital media and enterprise SANs The rest is here if anyone wants to read it..... biz.yahoo.com + TVeurope mag said this about the evolving architecture... Architecturally, the ambiguous nature of Fibre Channel (is it a network, is it an interface, is it both?) has led to an increasing number of users benefiting from being able to physically de-couple their sizeable disk clusters from the units housing both the codecs and the software running the user interface. Of course, the logical extension of this idea would be to also remote the codecs to a central 'engine room'. Operators then become left with merely a PC on which to host the man/machine interface. Some broadcasting organisations, for example TV4 in Sweden and Central TV in UK, have already embraced this concept, helped by product from OmniBus Systems (see their work with ENPS and Quantel). I take this to mean that the MV40s will sit next to the FC SANs. Any broadcast engineers who can comment on the potential role? Thanks in advance.