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vi...@eecg.toronto.edu (Vi Cuong Chan) writes:
>In article <39pe45$d...@harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au>,
>GM Enierga <gme...@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>>	A 486 DX 33?  I would really be surprised if that was the case.
>>As for the complaints bit... though someone said that it was a "major
>>pre-release game engine", that same someone said that it's speed was not
>>satisfactory.
>>	But tell me honestly: looking at Origin's trend, do you REALLY believe
>>they will keep supporting the 486 market?  I am not talking NOW (though you
>>could take this "now" as some sort of beginning) but perhaps a year from now:
>>do you think Origin's games will support the 486, when a year ago its games
>>still ran "satisfactorily" on a 386?
>>

>I don't really see the problem with Origin not supporting 486 in next year..
>1. you have every options not to buy any of their games.
>2. by this time next year, the price of Pentium compatible machine (with
>   the coming AMD, Cyrix and NextGen chips) will be less than $2000 (I 
>   think I saw this prediction in the current issue of Byte magazine).
>3. Intel P6 will be out by summer, 1995 (so 486 will be 2 generations behind
>   by this time next year).
>Anyway, I still think that the first point is most valid.. you DON'T need
>to buy any of their games if you DON'T want to.  For the same reason, nobody
>is complaining Cray for only making supercomputer.... why do we want to 
>complain Origin for only making high-end games?  

	Of course.  As for the P6... I bet you not; if what they say that the
chip WILL be backwards compatible with all other intel chips and at the same
time pushingnew technology (RISC or something) then I think it will be a while
to come yet.  They had said once it was going to come out around this time.
Besides, the Pentium is not nearly old enough... why would they not want to
milk this market for all its worth before showing us their next beast.
	As a final point, _I_ personally am not complaining about Origin
making high end games... if that was not the case we would not have had the
ground breaking WC's etc...  I just wish they would just tighten up their
coding so it could run a little better on a lesser machine.  THAT is what I
have been saying Origin is guilty of: very sloppy coding.
	It's amazing how some people misinterpret things to suit their own views
of what something says.

								- Falcon