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To: kash johal who wrote (81162)	5/18/1999 6:27:00 PM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE: "easy to use SOFTWARE appLICATIONSs become available under Linux. Today the answer is no." There are existing easy-to-use appLIANCES under Linux. More acronym confusion- IP = could be either Internet Protocol or Intellectual Property :) Amy J

To: kash johal who wrote (81162)	5/18/1999 6:29:00 PM
From: Black-Scholes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I agree with Kash.

To: kash johal who wrote (81162)	5/18/1999 6:37:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<I suspect that the next generation of game consoles are adequate for most home apps.> Of course they are! The problem is implementation, as you kind of mention. Let's say I buy a Sony Playstation II, but then decide I also want to do word processing and e-mail with it. Then I'll need to buy a separate keyboard that plugs into one of the controller ports, which itself works much like USB. I'll also have to buy a storage device, either some sort of proprietary disk drive or a flash memory card. Then I'll have to buy a converter so that I can plug a standard printer into one of the non-standard ports of the console. This is starting to look a lot like the old Commodore 64 or Atari home computers which connected up to TV sets and came with no built-in disk drives or storage devices. Remember those? The problem is that once you plug in all these devices to the game consoles, the price will add up to the point where it makes more sense just to buy a sub-$500 computer that has a TV-output port. Tenchusatsu