On 1/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If it weren't for a certain bloated OS most consumers could get by<br>just fine with an 8088 CPU. Except for HD playback, de-interlace and<br>transcode even Myth users don't need much CPU, but a lot of disk I/O<br>
bandwidth.</blockquote><div><br>You are exaggerating. An 8088 doesn't have enough power to display jpegs at reasonable speed, let alone handle mp3s, and forget video. Unless "most consumers" do nothing with their computer but handle email an 8088 is not going to be enough. A 33MHz 386, maybe, but pretty standard stuff like ripping CDs to mp3 would be pretty painful.
<br></div><br></div>Steve<br>