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In article <IjKq3XG00...@andrew.cmu.edu> Ethan M Connor <ec...@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>From: Ethan M Connor <ec...@andrew.cmu.edu>
>Subject: Re: Descent 8-way on pents!
>Date: Mon,  6 Mar 1995 14:22:11 -0500

>Excerpts from netnews.alt.games.descent: 6-Mar-95 Re: Descent 8-way on
>pents! by Dave Chernetz@access.mbn 
>> Yeah,  Pentuium would be nice but it will be a P6 by the time I upgrade.  
>> Let me just state that a good 486 works just fine for Descent.  Memory 
>> and graphics cards are the bottle necks.  :D

>    Not true...  When you have 8 people playing over an IPX network, the
>486 DX/2 66's are a BASELINE machine...  Even then you have to turn all
>the detail down, and make your viewpors as small as possible...  The
>network communications take too much of the processor...  I am saying
>this based on my experience with my 486/66 that has 32MB ram and a
>stelth 64 with 4MB vram...  Descent over the network really does require
>a Pentium...

I know my setup isn't the fastest but come on... I've played on a network on a 
386.  True, the guys with the 486's kicked my butt...

But, the only reason you would *have* to use a Pentium on the network is to 
keep up with the competition.

Randy Lisle
rdl...@cris.com
(speaking for myself)