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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?
>	Keeping an open mind.  By the way, are you in any way affiliated with
>Origin?
>

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?