99.99% of people would be just as happy with a 386.......................
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That number is a lot lower than you think.
Biggest block are gamers, who couldn’t play the vast majority of game that have come out in the last two decades on a 386.
Video and media development would take forever on a 386 too.
I remember in 1993 I ran a surface render on a map of the United States with 3D extrusions of each state (to demostrate a variation in a statistic for a report) in AutoCad that I had to let run in the lab overnight. In 1999 I could run the same render in less than 10 minutes. Today it would probably render in seconds.
For many years, the standard for CPU testing was the game Harpoon. When you have 32 inbound vampires(missiles) that you are countering with 64 AA missiles plus all the other movement, it chews up some cycles.