Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call | Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:07:54 +0100 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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[Massive snippage of Cc:] Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> said:
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> It is interesting that games are the only compelling motivation for > faster desktop hardware these days. It may be part of why we are in a > tech bust. When AIs become hardware purchase drivers, there will likely > be a boom again.
Oh, it was always that way. When it was Apple ][+, nobody complained about the spreadsheet being too small/slow, it was games which were CPU and display hungry. The machines of that vintage that have still a following around here are the Atari 800XL and such, which had special hardware for managing grahics on display. With the first PCs it was color displays. Then came CDs and multimedia. Today it is fast CPUs and accelerated video cards my students want for running the latest crop in games. Many keep Win98 just for running games, for work they use Linux ;-)
Some people say that most new computing stuff is first introduced for gaming. That does make sense to me, as in a game you'll be more tolerant of rough edges; plus games do have a much wider appeal than office suites or databases, and are a much more competitive market to boot. ;-) -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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