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To: marion (Hijacked) who wrote (19446)	1/30/1999 2:10:00 PM
From: HG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27307

Ma'am, I have been a computer professional since when we had CPM and 20 other non standard OSs like HICOS, and DOS actually stood for the Disk Operating System - the IBM mainframe 360 OS..............MS DOS actually derived its name from there, although it was very far removed from the IBM DOS. Been there, seen all that, learnt to accept and visualise the future in my own humble way.... :-)

To: marion (Hijacked) who wrote (19446)	1/30/1999 3:39:00 PM
From: marion (Hijacked)	Respond to of 27307

From the Economist: <<It is impossible to disentangle the rise of the gun-slinging day trader—an amateur investor equipped with a PC and a connection to the Internet—from the Internet-share phenomenon itself. Using accounts at online brokerages such as E*Trade, Ameritrade and Charles Schwab, which have themselves spiralled in value, and exchanging gossip on the message boards of Yahoo! and more specialist sites, such as the Silicon Investor and TheStreet, the day traders deal feverishly in the Internet shares they know and love. Many spend seven or eight hours a day online, and for them the Internet companies they invest in take on an unreal stature. As the virtual world displaces the physical, the idea that Yahoo! could be bigger and more important than Boeing or Eastman Kodak somehow becomes plausible. For most day traders, conventional market valuations derived from future profits are for idiots who just don't get it. >> economist.com