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To: Marc who wrote (3295)	5/2/1999 1:08:00 PM
From: Carnac	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5927

The oblivious hype centering on the CPU press releases was getting to be too much to stomach. Re "short": I get off on being able to say "I told you so" and such. (Hint: my name is Carnac). I'll leave you to figure the psych. (or phys.) implications. Maybe these kinds of internet prognostications are more accurate than matchmaking or dating on the internet. Or try the FBI Forensics Diction SubUnit. No, I believe MPEG-2 video decoding should be realized as a hardware block within the graphics controller. The Rage Pro 128 already has MCP and IDCT. Good, but put more. A Pentium 200+ is the most expensive and unreliable parser I could imagine. The current scheme already shares the frame buffer and memory controller resources, since you rarely want to run both 3D and DVD full throttle at the same time. Hmmm. I'm starting to pitch the media processor concept. Damn. Oooo, 4-tap filter. I'm impressed. Read the CUBE thread. I suggest that long term, the PC won't even need a hardware encoder (for digital VCR), but instead have an architecture similar to today's DVD player software/graphics-controller hybrids. Not doing your homework seems to be a trait of you folks, o' wise investors. -= Carnac =- "Sim, sola, bitch"