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To: Gary Burton who wrote (40528)	3/21/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: Big Dog	Respond to of 95453

Did you guys know that the market cap of MCI Worldcom alone is greater than that of the ENTIRE S&P Oil&Gas Drilling & Equipment Group AND the S&P 500 Domestic Oil Group COMBINED? 133.25 Billion vs. 42.95 Billion, 62.0 Billion respectively = 104.95 Billion Dell Computer at 93.4 Billion is more than the entire S&P 500 Domestic Oil Group at a mere 62.0 Billion. Salomon calls these valuations "anomalies" and has some very interesting, but lengthy, observations...about "new tech" vs. "old tech". big loosbrock.com

To: Gary Burton who wrote (40528)	3/21/1999 6:19:00 PM
From: Alski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Gary, If you've got enough memory or not depends on what you're trying to do. Memory has gotten so cheap it's worth a try but I doubt your "slow" performance is a memory problem, unless you're trying to do an awful lot of different things at once. For example, my desktop is a 120MHz Pentium with 32Meg. I've also got cable modem. I've got two network cards in this beast and running a proxy server so I can simultaneously surf with my laptop thru my desktop on the same account. When I get about four IE windows open with Quicken running in the background or more than two big java apps it starts to slow down a bit. My laptop has 64Meg and it's noticeably faster, but that's more because it's a 233Mhz PII than the memory. IE5 is more processor efficient. Even with more memory you'll still see an improvement over IE4. Of course, as I said before, if your trying to access a bogged down server nothing you do will help. Alski