[Info-vax] BOINC for VMS

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 4/3/2012 4:54 AM, Hans Vlems wrote:
> 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

Just not having to prepare your Federal & State Income Tax Returns by 
hand might be sufficient reason to install a computer if you don't have one!

The first time, many long years ago, I used a spread-sheet that I 
created just to get the computer to do the calculations.  Somewhere 
along in there, Turbo-Tax saved me the trouble AND it was tax deductible!