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To: gnuman who wrote (55431)4/9/1999 6:21:00 PM
From: Timothy Liu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
> In later posts I predicted that the price of mHz would begin to decline.

True since the beginning of time.

> I speculated that CPU performance was outpacing the requirements of the applications.

Since NT 4.0.

>I also felt Intel should start spending some of their megabucks on developing new applications that required the increasing power of their products.

Intel has been working toward that for a long time: Hybrid applications, software codec, 3D, Chrome, now the hottest is speech.

Tim



To: gnuman who wrote (55431)4/10/1999 2:17:00 PM
From: Knighty Tin  Respond to of 132070
 
Gene, On the Intel thread, and many others, when you tell them something they don't believe that comes true, they say they knew that all along and it wasn't a big deal. <g>