Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 19:52

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In <410fu8$68q@meaddata.meaddata.com> christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) writes:

>No, you'd need a 120MHz Pentium to compare with the 100 MHz PPC,
>because the Pentium has to run Windows... I've heard that OS/2 might
>be a little better.

There are at least one dozen OS's that can run on the Pentium.  How many
can run on the PMac?

A PMac _has_ to run the brain dead MacOS, a Pentium doesn't have to run
the brain dead Windows.  This is why some people couldn't case less about
the PMac, even if it would run as fast as an Alpha TurboLaser.

Dan
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