Re: The dim future of PC gaming.

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From: tta... Tiitus Tamminen
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 1995 00:00

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nobody <nob...@csufresno.edu> wrote:

->   100Mhz P5 can. It will run Win95 and its "native" applications about 
->   same speed at 133Mz P5, and it will run WindowsNT and Unixs 30%~60% 
->   fatser than a 133Mhz P5. Since it is very unlikely anybody would run 
->   their games on NT or Unix, P6 provides no speed improvement over P5 for 
->   PC gamers. Fianlly, gaming on X86 has hit the ceiling.

In case you didn't know, Win95+WinNT=Win97. So, by the time
P6s will be available for home PCs, PC users will be
running their games on WinNT (well, sort of).

Win95 is not the ultimate PC OS, it's a transient product to
move PC gamers from MSDOS to a GUI. For now it contains
16bit code to offer as much compatibility to older MSDOS
games as possible. Later, when people don't use the older
16bit programs, 16bit code is not needed anymore.

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