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For an illustration of this, see [1]. Keep in mind that this was almost 20 years ago, so the hardware he's running is probably something like a dual-socket Pent

For an illustration of this, see [1]. Keep in mind that this was almost 20 years ago, so the hardware he's running is probably something like a dual-socket Pentium Pro or Pentium II platform with a 66 MHz bus and core clock speeds around 10% of what we see on modern processors, and nothing like a modern GPU (I'd guess that the graphics hardware has accelerated blitting and an overlay for the live video input, though; it's unlikely that software is pushing every pixel in that demo). [1] https://youtu.be/BsVydyC8ZGQ?t=965 https://youtu.be/BsVydyC8ZGQ?t=965

ashark 10y ago
For reference, Win 98 (and Linux of the same vintage) used to stutter and pop on MP3 playback when you'd load a (mostly plain html back then) webpage.
- niels_olson 10y ago
  Windows 7 still does this with Pandora in Chrome when loading a new tab. Oh, wait, the world moved on from 32-bit Windows 7? Let me tell my boss...
  - protomyth 10y ago
    Your boss probably is doing what we are doing 7 -> 10, although why the heck you are on 32-bit is a little odd. I think we gave away all our 32-bit machines to students.
    - digi_owl 10y ago
      32-bit can still run Win16 code. 64-bit can't because of conflicting CPU modes. Could be they have some aging inhouse software they just can't replace...
      - protomyth 10y ago
        You know, COBOL programs are easier to run on modern machines than a lot of Win16 programs. I could only imagine that utter vile feeling of seeing a Win16 program for a modern Windows programmer.
djsumdog 10y ago
Oh man! I remember seeing this exact demo back in 2003/2004-ish .. I think. At that time, being able to capture from two video capture cards, in real time, on commodity hardware, was insane. So was being able to turn off individual processors. When I first started University a few years earlier, I had a quard-boot Win98/2000/BeOS/Slackware box using the BeOS bootloader (it was the most colourful at the time). /nostolgia

ashark 10y ago

For reference, Win 98 (and Linux of the same vintage) used to stutter and pop on MP3 playback when you'd load a (mostly plain html back then) webpage.

niels_olson 10y ago
Windows 7 still does this with Pandora in Chrome when loading a new tab. Oh, wait, the world moved on from 32-bit Windows 7? Let me tell my boss...
- protomyth 10y ago
  Your boss probably is doing what we are doing 7 -> 10, although why the heck you are on 32-bit is a little odd. I think we gave away all our 32-bit machines to students.
  - digi_owl 10y ago
    32-bit can still run Win16 code. 64-bit can't because of conflicting CPU modes. Could be they have some aging inhouse software they just can't replace...
    - protomyth 10y ago
      You know, COBOL programs are easier to run on modern machines than a lot of Win16 programs. I could only imagine that utter vile feeling of seeing a Win16 program for a modern Windows programmer.

djsumdog 10y ago

Oh man! I remember seeing this exact demo back in 2003/2004-ish .. I think. At that time, being able to capture from two video capture cards, in real time, on commodity hardware, was insane. So was being able to turn off individual processors. When I first started University a few years earlier, I had a quard-boot Win98/2000/BeOS/Slackware box using the BeOS bootloader (it was the most colourful at the time). /nostolgia