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From: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu>
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Subject: Re: Status of USB, TX chipset, PIIX3, etc.
To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey)
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 01:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199708072352.JAA15985@freebie.lemis.com> from "Greg Lehey" at Aug 8, 97 09:22:29 am
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> 
> William Wong writes:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, 6 Aug 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> Why would I want my mouse to transmit with 200 Mbit/s to my PC?
> >>>>
> >>>> WOW! That would be the RSI of the century I suppose. Lawyers beware ;-)
> >>>
> >>> Actually, maybe he has a mouse which delivers position updates in
> >>> microns - ever think of THAT?  Huh?  Huh?!  :-)
> >>>
> >>
> >> The business idea of the century - let's make all mouses transmit data at
> >> the rate the present processors can not keep up so everybody upgrades...
> >>> -)
> >>
> >> 	Sander
> >>
> >> 	There is no love, no good, no happiness and no future -
> >> 	all these are just illusions.
> >>
> >>> 					Jordan
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Do we remember when Bill Gates stated just a few years back that no one
> > could possibly utilize all 640k of memory on the original IBM PC?
> > Unfortunately, history does repeat itself even to those who do remember
> > the past. :(
> 
> If you think back a little harder, you'll recall that Bill Gates
> wasn't the bogey man back then.  It was IBM.  And they were the people
> who introduced the 640 kB limit.  I was using 86-DOS before the
> introduction of the PC, and it had a 1 MB limit.
> 
> Isn't it comforting to see that even Big Blue wasn't able to continue
> ruling the world?
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> 

Yeah, but MS is the one that popularized the IBM PC.  Besides, it's
more fun picking on Bill. :)  Nothing good seems to come out of MS.
MS just goes around absorbing technology from smaller companies.  I
actually have more respect for IBM; Their R&D isn't all that bad...  

-- 
William T. Wong
Cal State University, San Bernardino
  Phone:   (909) 880-7281
  email:   wwong@wiley.csusb.edu