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In article <32bd5c88.41871407@news2.cts.com>, dcorbell@cts.com wrote:

>Ok.  All I have to say is this:
>        I have used both Power Macs and Win NT PCs.  The PCs are
>undeniably faster and more reliable.  At school I use a Power Mac 9500
>180mhz 604e with 64MB RAM.  At home I use a Pentium Pro 200mhz with
>64MB RAM.  There is no comparison.  My PC is faster.  I had a Mac
>until the end of the summer and had a lot of problems with it.  My
>Wintel box is more difficult to upkeep, but I have more control over
>it.  I think that one of the main problems with running a PowerMac is
>the simple fact that the OS kernel is 16 bit, and doesn't support true
                                       ^^^^^^
You misspelled "32-bit."

>multitasking, or multiprocessing.  Be-os ought to do a serious job for
>PowerMacs.  Till then, NT 4.0 is the key to performance.

The main stability problem on the Mac is its lack of memory protection,
not its lack of pre-emptive multitasking or multiprocessing, which have
very little to do with machine stability -- they have more to do with
responsiveness and perceived speed.  Your Pentium Pro machine is probably
about the same speed as the 9500 in raw CPU horsepower, but is more
responsive (and thus seems faster to you) because NT's multitasking scheme
gives user interface threads high priority.

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