[anw]

John Carmack coding Quake on a 100 pound 1080p CRT in 1995[0] is a great image that this article reminded me of.

I seem to remember monitors being 800x600 around that time, and a few years later did we even see 1024x768 become the norm.

It's mind blowing to imagine what 1080 would be like back in the day.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20110927044427/https://geek.com/...

[mixmastamyk]

Around 1996 I got my hands on a ~22" 1600x1200 monitor at work and was amazed by it. I remember games worked ok under Windows 95, but Quake couldn't handle that resolution under Windows NT 4. I got around 3fps, if memory serves.

That and Monster Truck Madness were our goto's.

[watersb]

Wow, I had never seen this article before -- John Carmack is rocking an Intergraph workstation! I had one of these, a dual Pentium II box, in 1998. It was a beast.

I didn't have a godlike monitor like that widescreen monster. Although I did drop $2000 on a 20" (22?) Sony multisync that could do 1600 x 1200.

I managed to get the company I worked for to buy the Intergraph. And I managed to sell a used Silicon Graphics monitor at a slight profit, to take some of the sting away from the Sony.

I was out of my mind. Those were strange times.

Nice box, though.

[throwawaygimp]

The emotional response in the comments to any tech heavyweight person seems to be pretty mixed here on HN.

Except JC.

Who else? Doug Engelbart? Woz? The list is pretty short of these universally loved and respected gurus