>>713155040
The GHz/MHz war thing he's talking about is how there was that time when every CPU out there was clocked entirely on the raw clock speed of the processor and that's it, nothing else, it was a lot like with car bros bragging about horsepower when their car gets 0.2 MPG and can't turn very well.
Later on this evolved into "core wars" where it was all about the number of virtual/physical cores the chip had when they realized CPU clock speed had a limit imposed by actual physics.
Side note: I'm American and born in the late 80s; we were a little late to the PC party, but around the time Windows 95 hit, that's when just about everyone had a PC.
>>713154812
It was pretty expensive but you could get PCs secondhand for cheap because the tech evolved too fast (and those asshole companies kept changing socket shapes) and people had to dump stock all the time, or you'd get some deep discount on a PC by buying a sub to some dial-up service, or you'd get a hand-me-down from an uncle or something.
Plus games went on sale like mad, like I remember getting two copies of Baldur's Gate 1 and the Morrowind GOTY edition, both premier games being like $5 each and I bought them with my own allowance without much though.
PC didn't "die" until laptops became powerful enough to be viable for daily shit, and even then the finishing blow wasn't until Apple shit all over the market and blew everyone out of the water with the iPhone, causing everyone to make a mad dash to make/use smartphones for everything instead of PCs/laptops. (t. computer technician)
Bonus points: back then you didn't have nearly as much time-gated compatibility, so I spent a lot of time playing DOS games on floppies up until they finally gut DOS compatibility out in... Vista, I think. Saves a ton of money when you can buy secondahand games well after their release.
