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To: Paul Engel who wrote (70487)	1/4/1999 5:10:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, I suggest you get one of their early 486 CPUs - it might be slow enough for you. I find that any Pentium class CPU running at about 266 MHz or above is indistinguishable in performance from any other, for the applications I run at home. How much CPU power does it take to post on SI? Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (70487)	1/4/1999 6:36:00 PM
From: Xpiderman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Marriage on the rocks? Microsoft and Intel are drifting apart amid legal problems and diverging interests infoworld.com ,,,,,, Intel hedges bets In general, Intel's growing interest in Unix flavors is due to a sorely lacking presence in the higher segments of the server market, according to Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight64, in Saratoga, Calif. And when Intel goes up against the likes of Sun Microsystems running Solaris on Sparc or Digital Equipment running Digital Unix on Alpha, it loses. "Intel is not losing to the competition because the chip is slower, but because the OS is slower," said a source who asked not to be named. "The customer doesn't just throw out NT, however. They throw out the chip with it." ,,,,,,