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In article <391c43$n...@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>,
Chae Hon An <cha...@engin.umich.edu> wrote:
>In article <1994Oct25.0...@pimacc.pima.edu>,
> <ppug...@pimacc.pima.edu> wrote:
>>In article <Cy6wC...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>, ceba...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Casey Barton) writes:
>>> <ppug...@pimacc.pima.edu> wrote:
>>>>In article <38ep3g$5...@adam.cc.sunysb.edu>, fw...@cs.sunysb.edu (.) writes:
>>>>> I was watching some show called 'The computer man' and they had an origin 
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>>I think it's somewhat pretentious for Origin to think that a game company
>>will drive the industry. But whatever happens, they can always say that it
>>wouldn't have been any different anyways & who can say for sure that it's
>>not true?
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>	On the contrary.  I think you are too hastily discounting the 
>effects the game companies have had (and continue to have) on the 
>computer hardware industry.  The so-called serious computer professionals 
>who actually _needs_ faster video, greater number crunching power, more 
>storage (app servers, CAD designers, computer graphic artists) are 
>rather limited in number and probably could not have popularized the 
>advances in technology to you and me.  Without gaming industry, the 
>average game machine of today (486/66, 8 meg RAM, some sort of local bus 
>video, ideally. proabbaly more like 486/33 or below) would be esoteric 
>"power" machines as obscure to you and me as high powered Silicon 
>Graphic's Mips powered workstation.  In short, the gaming industry 
>probably did all of us a favor, as far as making high performance 
>machines more popular and accesible.  Not bad for "pretentious" game 
>companies.

I'm sorry to say so but you are very much mistaken.  The computer Hardware 
industry, like any other, is driven by money.  And I hate to break it to 
you, but the amount of money us gamers spend on hardware is chickenfeed 
compared to what companies do.  And your average company does use the 
horsepower required by the most demanding.  We're not talking about dictating 
a letter on a DOS wordprocessor; we're talking about running Powerpoint and 
Word off the network and putting together a 90 page graphical presentation.
That is what non-CADers, non-graphic artists, do (among other things) on 
their computers today.  

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Matt