After a year or two, I overclocked it to 80 MHz to run Duke Nukem 3D or Quake or whatever for a _very precious_ +5 fps or so because your framerate

After a year or two, I overclocked it to 80 MHz to run Duke Nukem 3D or Quake or whatever for a _very precious_ +5 fps or so because your framerate was often in the 20 fps range. Made a huge difference Yeah! I think it's often lost to history how "vital" overclocking was. (Obviously, games aren't actually vital, but you know what I mean) Overclocking was often the difference between "unplayable" and "playable." Or "playable" and "actually nice." Following this I went to Pentium 133 MHz, and it feels like the world of computing changed less and less following that. For me there have only been two seismic hardware shifts since those days. One was LCD/LED screens. While I love CRTs for gaming, I do not miss staring at them all day for coding. The other seismic shift for me was SSDs. After the 386/486/Pentium days the gap between CPU performance and HDD performance reached utterly absurd levels. You'd have these absolute beast CPUs just sitting around and waiting for ancient spinning rust. Ridiculous. SSDs rebalanced the equation a bit. Things got more convenient as the x86 architecture won rather than having a smorgasbord of viable home computing options, but also a little bit more boring. Amen.