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To: Paul Engel who wrote (76145)	3/11/1999 2:28:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - The Death of Wintel has been greatly exaggerated ! On Monday, Microsoft, Intel, HP and Nortel will announce an alliance to bring fast DSL modems - 1 Mbps - to the "desktop". Here's the article from PC Week. Paul {=========================} zdnet.com HP, Intel, Microsoft and Nortel ally on desktop access speeds By John Rendleman and John G. Spooner As part of a major technology alliance Intel Corp., Nortel Networks, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT) will embark on an effort to bridge their semiconductor, PC, Internet browser and data networking technologies. The alliance--scheduled to be launched Monday at the Technology Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif.--will unite the partners' respective technologies to help provide high-bandwidth applications for the Internet, said sources familiar with the group's plans. As one aspect of the effort, Intel (Nasdaq:INTC) will partner with Nortel Networks (NYSE:NT) , of Brampton, Ontario, to link the chipmaker's new Pentium III processor with Nortel Networks' 1-Meg Modem, a DSL (digital subscriber line)-based, high-speed modem technology. By linking the 1-Meg Modem capabilities with the Pentium III, the alliance will enable PC makers to ship PCs with high-speed networking technologies built-in, the sources said. Intel officials, speaking at the company's Pentium III preview day last month, said high-bandwidth Internet connections such as DSL will be the key to delivering the kind of content, including three-dimensional graphics and streaming audio and video, for which the new chip is optimized. HP (NYSE:HWP) , for its part, is expected to contribute some of its server technology to the alliance to enable the creation of applications-enabled data service capabilities linked with policy-based management of the networked applications, according to sources. The partners plan to embed networking protocol stacks from Nortel into Microsoft's Windows and Internet Explorer to provide greater intelligence to remote access devices and services. By embedding the Nortel protocol stack in Windows and IE, the partners hope to allow remote access devices to detect network configurations in order to better "understand" how to communicate across the network, sources said. Intel can be reached at www.intel.com. Nortel Networks is at www.nortel.com. HP is at www.hp.com. Microsoft is at www.microsoft.com.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (76145)	3/11/1999 2:33:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Intel Investors - IBM to Introduce a 366 MHz Pentium II "Transformer" Notebook. This is interesting ! Paul {===================} zdnet.com IBM readies 'Transformer' notebook By Darren Gladstone IBM's next notebook is dubbed the "Transformer," but that doesn't mean Big Blue is moonlighting as a toy maker. The ThinkPad 570 gets its code name from its ability to change from a notebook to a mininotebook in the blink of an eye. At first glance, the ThinkPad 570, which IBM (NYSE:IBM) plans to ship late next month, is a sub-7-pound notebook with a 13.3-inch active-matrix display, a floppy drive and a CD-ROM drive. But a user can pop out the core segment of the keyboard, pointing device and display to create a 3-and-a-half-pound mininotebook for travel, said a source who has seen the notebook. The 570 uses a 366MHz Pentium II processor and will be priced starting at approximately $2,500, sources said. The notebook's casing is made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic, rather than the now-popular magnesium alloy, because it is more durable and better able to dissipate heat, sources said. "The question remains, though, how it stacks up to current notebooks," said a source close to IBM. "It's tough to judge because this notebook creates a new category." Details of the notebook have piqued the interest of some users. "[The ThinkPad 570] seems like an innovative product that's priced right. When it becomes available, I plan to evaluate it," said John Lando, manager of IS with Long Island City, New York-based Citicorp. "It sounds like it will give the right blend of flexibility on the road." IBM declined to comment on an unannounced product. IBM, in Somers, N.Y., can be reached at www.ibm.com.