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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?
>

	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.

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