[Info-vax] BOINC for VMS

[Hans Vlems]

On 15 mrt, 18:09, David Froble <da... at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> John Wallace wrote:
> > On Mar 15, 4:43 am, David Froble <da... at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> > "Can you imagine anyone at DEC building a computer for games?"
>
> > If you meant selling a computer for someone else to build a games
> > system round, then yes, I don't have to imagine it.
>
> No, I'm talking about the games that used to be popular on PCs, but now the X-box and
> Nintendo and such have taken over much of the market.
>
> When if comes to PCs, many times the "gaming systems" are more powerful than most other
> uses.  Much of this comes from the bleeding edge graphics that all the kiddies seem to
> have to have.  Even systems with multiple graphics cards.
>
> But with an attitude such as "who would ever want a computer in their home", imagining "a
> computer in their home to play games" just wasn't going to happen.
>
> I don't have any stats, but I've got to feel that games are a large part of the PC market.

They are, and I feel that gaming software is the main driving force
for faster systems (cpu's, graphics etc.)
Hans