If someone were to ask you if you wanted your next PC to be a “multimedia PC,” you might scratch your head or just laugh. It’s almost akin to asking someone whether they want cold ice cream. But in the early 1990s when CD-ROM-based titles like the original “Myst” launched, there were still plenty of PCs that couldn’t play video well.
And so, a group of software publishers collaborated to define the “Multimedia PC” standard. Its quaint specs included Windows 3.0 running on a 386SX CPU, 2 MB RAM, a 30 MB hard drive, a sound card, and, of course, a CD-ROM drive.
