Re: PC or Mac?

[Scarletdown <secretarybird_01@yahoo.com>]

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 05:43:40 GMT, "Byron Q. Desnoyers Winmill"
<byron@b60z27hbb464i.ab.hsia.telus.net> wrote:

>Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> You think that if a thing can be done and would be useful, then
>> it should be done.
>> 
>> Developers think that if a thing can be done and would be profitable,
>> then it should be done.
>> 
>> I think that explains the paradox.
>
>To a degree.  Clearly most software developers do not make money when
>they force users to upgrade their operating system or hardware, yet
>they persist in creating software with higher and higher system
>requirements.

Kinda reminds me for some reason of when the Wizardry series was
rereleased a few years ago in a big compilation.  As far as I could
tell, no changes were made to the graphics or other features of the
games, yet suddenly the minimum requirements were several generations
ahead of what they were when the games first came out (IIRC, they were
also about 1 generation ahead of what was currently the standard for
that matter.)

-- Scarletdown