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Re: Microsoft talks Longhorn, XNA, and Xbox 2
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| Thundercracker 2004-09-30, 12:53 am |
| Marcin Nowak <Marcin.Nowak@remove_it.cern.ch> wrote in message news:<acvgdrfk.fsf@remove_it.cern.ch>...
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> "Xenon" <xenonxbox2@xboxnext.com> writes:
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> Holy crap. I hate when they do this. It's like when I try to bake a
> frozen pizza, and they write on the box "set your oven to 5". And
> then I stand there scratching my head trying to figure out what
> temperature do they mean. Like if saying 5 was easier than 200C.
> Arrgh. This world is going into a wrong direction.
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> Marcin
The industry already tried this nonsense in the mid 90s. It was called
MPC or Multimedia PC, which set standards on a computer to make sure
it would run consumer-based titles like Myst and what not. Back then,
"multimedia" was a huge buzzword. Among the requirements of MPC was
having a CD-ROM drive. By the time the MPC2 standard was updated, the
"multimedia" buzzword had faded away. I think they went as high as
MPC3 before realizing how useless the system was. I don't know of any
hardware or software vendors that actually made use of it, and in any
case people still had to pay attention to raw system specs since the
MPC defined a baseline rather than a fixed configuration. It would
only be useful in the latter case, but that would essentially reduce
compliant PCs to black boxes. Although that wouldn't necessarily be a
disadvantage since the only people who would need a numbering scheme
probably shouldn't be poking around in the computer anyway.
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