Warp wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> 1. At the time, Doom was reputed to require insanely expensive high-end 
>> hardware to run usably.
> 
>   That would be a 486, yes. It worked in a 386, but 486 was recommended.

SX or DX? ;-)

>> 4. It was slow as hell!
> 
>   With current computers you could run Doom at 1600x1200 in the original
> software rendering mode without problems (assuming it would support those
> resolutions, which it doesn't, at least not without heavy modifications
> of the source code, AFAIK).

Impressive what 10 years of evolution can do, eh?

And yet, M$ Word is still as slow today as it was all those years ago... 
I guess some things never change. :-S

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