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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:09:38 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>
Cc:        "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, <hornback@wireco.net>, <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!)
Message-ID:  <00e901c0addf$aedcebc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010315001346.G496@cjc-desktop.users.reflexcom.com>

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:cjclark@reflexnet.net]
>Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:14 AM
>
>The causality here is kind of hard to sort out. Does the M$ bloatware
>press hardware manufactures to keep getting more processors, disk, and
>memory for less money, or has the software has just run away as the
>hardware resources became available?

I think the second.  The gamers have always been the ones to demand the
biggest hardware for their realtime animation, I think MS just comes along
later and sucks the spare CPU cycles up.

Ted Mittelstaedt                      tedm@toybox.placo.com
Author of:          The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Book website:         http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com



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