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It wouldn't be unheard of. Qualcomm before they made all the chips they do today, ran a pretty popular and successful email client called Eudora. Doing one th
by j45 10mo ago
It wouldn't be unheard of.
Qualcomm before they made all the chips they do today, ran a pretty popular and successful email client called Eudora.
Doing one thing well can lead to doing bigger things well.
More realistically, if the top end chips go towards the most demanding work, there might be more than enough lower grade silicon that can easily keep the gaming world going.
Plus, gamers rarely stop thinking in terms of gaming, and those insights helped develop GPUs into what they are today, and may have some more light to shine in the future. Where we see gaming and AI coming together, whether it's in completely and actually immersive worlds, etc, is pretty interesting.
Update: Adding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudora_(email_client) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudora_(email_client)
- flopsamjetsam 10mo agoI had completely forgotten about the existence of Eudora. Thanks friend, that lead me down a mental rabbit hole.
- j45 10mo agoGlad you enjoyed. Steve Wozniaks review of audits was fun to read.
- kps 10mo agoMac Eudora was the best email client ever. If it had got UTF8 support I'd probably still be running it in an emulator.
- j45 10mo agoI just learned today that there has been some efforts underway: https://hermes.cx/ https://hermes.cx/