CompuServe Messages

Ahhh, Keith, the decision of mainframes versus desktop workstations is a *business* decision, not a *personal* one. It's quite the opposite with stereo-like components… Then, again, though, you're making my point for me. For a commodity computer like CDTV to "integrate" with the home market (to handle climate control, security, communications, etc.), it will need to learn about the environment it is working in. That takes persistent memory and the more of it, the better. Affordable CD-*RAM* will open up a lot of possibilities for the home market, but the current CD-*ROM* systems will amount to no more than entertainment/education systems and that will dissapate into fad-dom. Perhaps they'll survive long enough to garner interest in correcting that, but the economy is not in great shape right now. David – via Whap!