13 Oct
2012
13 Oct
'12
4:08 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2012 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: Skipware level, late 2012
On 10/13/2012 05:21 PM, Pontus wrote:
Yes, it's pretty scary. It's disheartening that a brain-vegetating,
time-wasting activity that people should've outgrown by late childhood
is the primary driver of computer performance today.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Where have you been, computer games have been driving upgrades since the DOS
era on PC and one of the major reasons people purchased computers since the
Commodore/Atari days.
The funny thing is most gamers today have switched to consoles, PC games
sales are nothing like they used to be mostly because of the expense those
constant upgrades involved.
The bright side is any machine that can run current games at high resolution
and full details will probably run any work type application with decent
speed as well (unless you really need a pricey 2GB RAM equipped video card
for CAD).