'My favorite platform' debate (was: Rack Mount Servers)

[Jerry Feldman]

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You're probably correct. I don't see any benefit for a normal home user to 
get a 1.5Ghz Pentium 4 for $700. Games certainly do drive the system. But, 
people tend to load up with applications and leave them hanging around all 
the time (but most of that resides in swap space).
"Derek D. Martin" wrote:

> I have to disagree.  While I think they may have had an influence, I
> think the largest influence was by far had by the gaming industry.
> They're the ones pushing the graphics accelerators into the gagillions
> of pixels per nanosecond range... and the average home/business user
> STILL has no need of anything more powerful than a Pentium 200MHz
> running Windows 95.  Except for games.
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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