> It was amazing, and infuriating, to have your decently high-end system basically obsoleted in two generations. I remember this all too well. And PCs were exp

> It was amazing, and infuriating, to have your decently high-end system basically obsoleted in two generations. I remember this all too well. And PCs were expensive. $2,000-3,000 rigs in 1990 money. Today you can pick up a loaded Ryzen laptop for less than half that in 2023 money. Crazy. In the early '90s I was still on an IBM XT clone from around 1986 with CGA graphics and monitor. Few of the new games I wanted to play would work on it. It was worse when the 386 came out. Today, with a machine built around 2017 and a GTX 1080 I can still play most new games just fine. I do kinda miss when AMD and Intel shared the CPU socket. I had a AMD 386dx40, which IIRC Intel never made a 386 that fast.