Posted By
MMS
on 2008-10-21
04:20:17
 |  Re: The same question asked about a million times no doubt
Gaia, thanks for the explanation.
BTW, C64 did also some kind of banking, right? Or Plus/4 made it more intensively to have 60K free RAM, while C64 offered only 38k?
And yes, Microsoft is responsible for the global warming in that form, that the PCs power consumption increased drastically due to the newer Opsystem's higher demands, and majority of PCs are running XP. Each PC generates ~100-150W heat in every hour (nowadays 450W OPSU is typical). If we would have a better OS would need less CPU and memory, every PC could use 30-50W less (per hour).
Just to remind you: the Amiga500 and 1200 used a 23W PSU (with all the multitask OS, programs and nice games, certainly without HDD and 3D) and Mac Quadra 610 used a 40W PSU. Certainly the specs sounds funny today, but do not forget, that if the OS would not require that CPU power, amount of memory an HDD space, the game developers should have been calculated with much less resources, then they had to finetune it stronger. (see Sony PS1 and PS2)
Eg. GEOS Essemble (multitask, multithread) run on a 8MB 486 very fluent with a lot of nice features and UI, much better than Windows3.0, not to speak about Win95
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoWorks
UI I would say it is easily comparable with Win Millenium.
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