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To: shane forbes who wrote (18620)	5/29/1999 10:24:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25814

Shane, it is a popular mantra to say about Intel that they decide what's good for us, and they do keep raising the MHz bar to keep their revenues and profits up there. However, the other way to look at it is that, without a company that CAN raise the bar, AND get the phenomenal yields that they can, and that has worked reasonably well with Microsoft to give us computing platforms that do work IN THE HOME, we could be conversing via IBM or TI or Apple based machines at a much, much greater cost. Actually, there would be far, far fewer of us that would afford it, because, if you think Intel socks it to ya, you ain't seen nothing compared to, like, IBM (when they've got a monopoly). And don't give me AMD, because Intel was lowering prices every quarter even when Another Major Disaster had nothing but a K5. Did you know that if autos had kept up performance, reliability and price-wise with computer hardware (PCs) since the 70's, we'd be driving at 10,000 MPH, with an almost non-existent accident rate, in cars that cost $25 each? "And that's the truth." - Lily Tomlin I don't know another company, other than Intel, that we can hold up as responsible for that. Before you come back with 'they're holding us up all right...' Tony