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GETTING the "REAL Story" - 14 months ahead of time.

Being an active participant (as opposed to an passive "listener"), I have 
often been able to draw out industry experts, developers for leading 
corporations, and even corporate heads.  And draw them into giving 
confidential information, in order to win an argument.

I knew about the IBM-PC 6 months before it came out.  I knew about the 
MacIntosh almost 1 year before it was released (once described as a
cross between small-talk and unix).  I was able to test drive one of the 
first Sun systems through relationships established through the internet.

I observed the planning stages of X11R1 when they were discussing the 
concepts.  I even tried the early "TI 4010" X-servers.  Two years before 
Microsoft released Windows 3.0, we were running X11R3.  When Windows 3.0 
came out, it was shown next to Unix stations running each other's X11R4 
applications.  I even listened as Unix programmers and Mac programmers 
dialogued with Microsoft on the limitations of MS-Windows.

Most of the features of OS/2 and Windows-NT were originally included in 
Game software (threads was originally introduced in X-Tank).

The "Multiprocessor Risc" architecture (now known as Pentium and Alpha)
were originally designed and defined on an internet newsgroup in 1985.

The heart and core of client/server computing was defined and established 
way back in 1983, then called the "Virtual Call" and designed by a team
at Computer Consoles.

Often, design principles and even designs which are dismissed by 
management as impossible or impractical, are shared with the internet 
only to become the seeds of $1 Billion companies.

The "Contract with America" (and it's consequences and rewards) was being 
designed and fleshed out 10 years ago, on an internet News Group.

National Policies are formed in internet newsgroups.  Congressional aids 
literally cut-and-paste newsgroup postings into legislation.  What was a 
good idea on the internet yesterday, became law today.  Laws are often 
repealed as a result of internet dialogue.

Read a NewsGroup (and participate), become Rich and Famous.

	Rex Ballard
	Director of Electronic Distribution
	Standard & Poor's /McGraw Hill Companies


From rballard@cnj.digex.net Thu Apr 27 02:22:23 1995
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