> > The average home PC is a lot higher than this. Hell, even two years ago you
> > could buy much faster machines than this...and as most games require P-2's,
> > I guess people have upgraded.
>
> Home PC, yes. National average of all pc's in use, no. :-) There are
> a lot of embarrassingly old pieces of kit about - including 286's.
> There seems to be a sufficiently sizeable market for low spec hardware
> that several companies make upgrade kits and bolt on parts for 486DX
> machines.
Actually this is a market that will almost disappear over the next
couple of months because the machines simply aren't Y2K compliant.
There's one good use for these machines - dumb terminals using
MetaFrame. And since that costs $$$$ (or ���� :)), don't expect to see
many called into active MetaFrame service.
Jason
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