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Article #1344Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Dave Glue
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 20:04
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 20:04
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William Taylor <wwtaylor@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >extra for for the PC laptops. On top of that, PCMCIA cards are quite >expensive! To get SCSI and ethernet would run someone about $700-1000 for >a PC laptop. You're kidding, right? >Too bad for them because, from long experience, WIn95 is not that good, >and PC hardware is terrible. I like NT alot though. (There is NO reason >why Apple cannot build PPC NT boxes though to compete in the corporate >market. All it takes is a HAL and some drivers.) From "long" experience? Amazing, considering the things not even out yet. 95's weakness is not complete memory protection, and yet you advocate the Mac, which is far worse in that area? And that "simple" HAL is the main reason Copland will be out in a year, not in a month. Hardly an easy task at all.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!interlog.com!news From: daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Sun, 20 Aug 1995 20:04:21 GMT Organization: InterLog Internet Services Message-ID: <417pv7$qp7@steel.interlog.com> References: <40vm6i$mt8@nnrp3.primenet.com> <DDKJ4A.Fq4@midway.uchicago.edu> <415ht5$3ul@bug.rahul.net> <4130pi$59d@news.net-connect.net> <415rpn$frr@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: daveacg.interlog.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82