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To: Kirk Vanden who wrote (5810)	3/3/1999 10:52:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 14451

To me, putting out a product with restricted compatibility is a colosal screw up. I can hear the competing sales forces telling all kinds of wonderful stories. NEC.... Not Entirely Compatible. Not getting the hardware right on a standard like the PCI that's only been around for forever makes one wonder at what ity bity software lice are just waiting in the wings to bite ya. Look up in the sky, it's bird, it's a plane, no it's a super screaming SGI visual nt workstation. Faster that a speeding bullet, More powerful than a coleco vision. But damn, no one can reach the keyboard flying up in the sky. But it comes with 200 ft of kite string. Tom Watson tosiwme..... Sell SGI..... Buy Nine..... Flat Panel revenue may save SGI which is 110 times bigger than NINE. But if it does..... how much revenue will be on Nines bottom line.

To: Kirk Vanden who wrote (5810)	3/3/1999 11:46:00 PM
From: Eli Lauris	Respond to of 14451

There's no PCI design flaw. The only thing is that 320/540 take only the 3.3 volt cards. This is the latest PCI standard which has been around for at least two years. There are still a large number of 5 volt card which comply with the older PCI standard. There are also universal cards which can be plugged into either 3.3v or 5v slots and CAN be used in the visual workstations. Now, since the 320 has the networking, graphics, video and audio integrated on the motherboard, the need for PCI cards in general is sharply reduced compared to other NT workstation. You can also buy what's called PCI expansion box, such as from company Bit3 (see www.bit3.com) that consist of an adapter that plugs into one of the PCI slots on the 320 and connects via a ribbon cable to an external box that provides additional 3 to 7 PCI slots. These boxes have both 3.3v as well as 5v slots. So if you really need to have a PCI card that doesn't yet have a 3.3v or universal version, this solution will work.