Reply 40 of 50, by Tetrium
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wrote:wrote:Thanks for the info so then after 2000 pc performance skyrocketed as far as advancement rates at least in the past 8 or 9 nines years. At least it seems that to me.
Not at much of a different rate than previously. The '90s were much more exciting than this decade IMO. We went from 486 with VGA/EGA and very limited audio to a 1GHz P3/Athlon with 3D acceleration and CD-quality audio. If anything, tangible progress has slowed a lot.
If anything, the 90's were definitely more exciting then the 00's regarding hardware.
After the 90's it was all about AMD or Intel, ATI or NVidia, Creative or onboard...
Yes we had a few sidesteps like the Kyro and that soundstorm, but nothing like the jungle we had in the 90's.
Sure it was terrible then 🤣, what would you have to buy? And where would you get the right information from? Internet wasn't as common as it was now.
Back then we had AMD, Intel, Cyrix, Winchip, Rise, VIA, Overdrives and upgrade chips, ...
We had ofcourse ATI and NVidia, S3, Matrox, 3DFX, Rendition, Tseng Labs, ...
Now we all have USB and DVD-R.
Back then we had ZIP's, Superdisks, The floppy, a couple more floppies and of course CDR and CDRW and a whoole bunch of other obscure portable media.