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随着Intel-Microsoft NetPC战略的日渐明朗,人们不难发现,NetPC所拥有的仅仅是一种小市场。这并非危言耸听。事实上,Microsoft和Intel从一开始就藐視人们对NC的构想。Microsoft的总裁Bill Gates在去年10月举行的GartnerGroup会议上仍在继续嘲笑其它供应商的这一新PC概念。他劝告用户说,如果他们只想得到一台具有有限功能的PC,完全可以采用基于386的“二手”机器,并继续使用Windows 3.1即可,而无須去购买所谓的NC。 Intel-Microsoft的NetPC采用的是Pentium或Pentium Pro处理器、16MB的内存,以及封闭的但可加以扩展的(通过即插即用)规范化体系结构。然而,某些人认为,NetPC看上去与其说是NC,倒不如说是一种起错了名字的PC。NetPC与NC之比,就如同早期底特律的大
With the increasing clarity of the Intel-Microsoft NetPC strategy, it is not difficult to find that NetPC has only a small market. This is not alarmist. In fact, Microsoft and Intel have defied people’s vision of NC from the very beginning. Bill Gates, president of Microsoft, continued to laugh at other vendors’ new PC concepts at the GartnerGroup conference in October last year. He advises users that if they only want a PC with limited functionality, they can simply use a 386-based “second-hand” machine and continue to use Windows 3.1 without buying the so-called NC. Intel-Microsoft NetPC uses a Pentium or Pentium Pro processor, 16MB of memory, and a closed but extensible (Plug and Play) normalization architecture. However, some people think that NetPC does not seem to be NC, but rather a PC with a wrong name. The ratio of NetPC to NC is similar to that of early Detroit.