From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 15 22:10:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA91B37B718 for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:10:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2G69dx07206; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:09:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: Cc: "Mike Meyer" , , Subject: RE: Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:09:38 -0800 Message-ID: <00e901c0addf$aedcebc0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-reply-to: <20010315001346.G496@cjc-desktop.users.reflexcom.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >-----Original Message----- >From: Crist J. Clark [mailto:cjclark@reflexnet.net] >Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:14 AM > >The causality here is kind of hard to sort out. Does the M$ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message