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To: Greg S. who wrote (10459)	2/1/1999 10:11:00 PM
From: Joe C.	Respond to of 16960

Greg, just think long term capital gain. Joe C.

To: Greg S. who wrote (10459)	2/1/1999 10:51:00 PM
From: Joe Pirate	Respond to of 16960

>>I'm a fan because I like their products. Good products, no doubt. >>I'm a shareholder because I thought they would be the most >>profitable. From 1.8 million (IPO) to 60 million in sales per qtr. Very profitable. >>I apologize if I sound cynical, but I'm losing the faith. I just >>don't see this dog going anywhere anytime soon. The mysteries of the stock market. Great products, great earnings, great growth... Price laggs.. Doens't make sense... Perception is not always reality in the stock market. Where "Smart money" flows... Semiconductor: Intel (Need I say what they do ?) Motorola (Jack-of-all-trades) Micron (memory, amazing that it is up..) Altera (programmable logic chip) Xilinx (programmable logic chips) Linear tech. (analog chips) ..etc.. NOT Semiconductor - speculative: AMD, CRUS, LSI, VLSI, TDFX, TDDDF, etc... and the list goes on. Networking / Telcom Cisco Lucent Tellabs Northern Telecom ..etc.. NOT Networking / Telecom - speculative Pairgain Fore systems Westell ..etc.. Computer Hardware DELL DELL DELL oh.. CPQ and GTW.. Internet stocks - speculative x 1000 pick any... :-D (unsolved mystery) YHOO soars..AMZN soars... Anyone_Anyplace_Dot_Com soars... Banks Chase, Citigroup, etc. etc. get battered, Asian Flu... ...Back up there.. What happened ? Dow Stocks ? ...get battered, Asian Flu... ...Back up there.. What happened ? ********************************************************************* What does all this madness mean ? There are alot of other good stocks that are not talked about. Names like Intel, Cisco, Dell, Compaq, America Online, Lucent, Microsoft, Oracle, etc.... are always coming up in conversation. Who ever heard of CA and CSC, the other BILLION dollar companies not making news ? When buying stocks, the "brand-name" seems to come first. Bizzare as it may seem. Good stocks seem to grow slow like trees and speculative stocks grow quick, but someone is there with an axe in hand wearing the dreaded hood. I found peace when buying a stock and then getting rid of it as soon as it shows profit. If there is no profit to be had, I dump it. Next.... Good Luck... Pirate

To: Greg S. who wrote (10459)	2/2/1999 12:13:00 AM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Respond to of 16960

Greg, Your concerns are mine. Not willing to sell until 3dfx-files though. Pat

To: Greg S. who wrote (10459)	2/2/1999 1:37:00 AM
From: Yeagher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Greg, I agree almost completely with your sentiment. The _only_ reason I bought TDFX was because of Rampage. I believe it will provide mind blowing graphics - especially with a newer version of Glide meant to run on such powerful hardware. But Voodoo3 was a mistake IMHO, because the hardcore gamers aren't as excited about this card the way they would be about a _real_ next gen product - and neither is the press. If they had called it Banshee2, it probably would've been hailed as a powerful update to an already successful chip, but instead all we hear are what features it doesn't have. Everybody knows about Intel's roadmap (maybe not in tremendous detail, but enough to comprehend the developments in the cpu arena we will see in the next few years). It doesn't hurt the company for us to know what's going on, but imagine if they kept their roadmap a secret. They could make a lot of claims and not have to back anything up, since we would have no documentation to compare it with. 3dfx must live up to the hype they have been hinting at or they (gulp, we) are going to look like the biggest fools since the emperor's new clothes.