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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (45814)1/16/1998 4:54:00 PM
From: Shahen Petrosian  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
> OK, where is the killer app. that you "need" a Pentium II-300 to run?

What was the killer-app that demanded an upgrade from 486 DX2/66 to the first generation of Pentiums?

Also, in my opinion the term "killer-app" hasn't applied since the MAC/PC wars of the 80's. In an era when only a handful of applications were available, single applications could make or break a hardware trend. Spreadsheets helped the popularity of PCs and Adobe fonts and WYSIWYG created a market for Apple. These days however, software grows in sophistication by pushing the hardware envelope for "best performance" while catering to a lower common denominator for "acceptable performance". This in turn creates a gradual but constant push towards faster hardware performance. I don't see this trend stopping in the near future.

Shahen Petrosian.
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