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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (73361)	2/11/1999 1:20:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Ten, Let me get this straight. Intel is charging a $500 premium for PIII to do decompression? I think I will spend the next two days designing a PIII emulation decompression FPGA, sell it for $50 and become rich. This PIII nonsense is getting way too deep for me. Scumbria

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (73361)	2/11/1999 4:08:00 PM
From: Jeff Fox	Respond to of 186894

Tenchusatsu, re:"PIII better for encoding" I don't think they're talking about all Internet traffic. I think they are talking about real-time video and audio. With processing power, you can take a person's voice or camera video in real-time Good point. Today's processors struggle with efficient video encoding, at least with any quality left in the images. The PIII will do real time MPEG II encoding. I understand this is beyond the capability of lessor x86 products. Paul's prior post also suggest rendering graphics. This might be of interest on the net, but most can live without it for awhile anyway. I've played with the 3D Dilbert cartoons. Amused me for almost 10 minutes :) I think the better story lies with using PIII with a high bandwidth net connection. The net will again change character once cable modems rule. For instance I've predicted that soon we will have essentially a TV channel per person. The PIII, and its successors will flourish in this environment. Jeff