On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 19:32, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
Thank M$ for its increasing hardware demands which forced the hardware to evolve in decades rather than a century;
Bollocks! Hardware was better in home computers than in PCs. The Amiga outclassed the PCs current at the time (33Mhz) with a much superior design. The PC caught up and surpassed it because of its modular design and (semi) open architecture, allowing one company to improve the graphics while another worked on the sound. The rest has been completely natural evolution, as mainframe technology led the advances and sifted down to PCs as it became cheaper to build. Microsoft software expands to fill the space available for it. But that's not the reason people upgrade their hardware. Noone I know buys a new PC because he "just has to have XP". The new games, on the other hand, can be an incentive for better hardware. In business, hardware frequently is still on 3-5 year old technology, so that's not the driving force. The home user is, and he wants games. Microsoft has invented nothing, and caused nothing to be invented. Except perhaps MS Bob