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Article #1365Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware
From: Orc
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 16:31
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 16:31
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In article <410fu8$68q@meaddata.meaddata.com>,
Christopher C. Wood <christw@meaddata.com> wrote:
>In article <40tmjq$uo2@navajo.gate.net>, cirby@news.gate.net (Chad Irby) writes:
>|> Uhhh... pick up the phone, call directory assistance, ask for the local
>|> number for Power Computing (an Austin company). Ask them for a price on
>|> a 100 MHz PPC 601. Then call Dell and ask them for the price on a 100
>|> MHz Pentium with the same setup.
>
>|> Comparable, to say the least...
>
>No, you'd need a 120MHz Pentium to compare with the 100 MHz PC,
>because the Pentium has to run Windows...
^^^^^^
Has to?
I dunno about that -- there are plenty of people out there
running OS/2, VMS, or any of a dozen Unix variants on 586s. Unlike
the Mac, hardware information is readily available for PCs and it's
a relatively simple operation to port new operating systems onto
those boxes.
____
david parsons \bi/ orc@pell.com
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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 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gallant.apple.com!orc From: orc@pell.com (Orc) Subject: Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware Sender: news@gallant.apple.com Message-ID: <1995Aug18.163153.26383@gallant.apple.com> Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 16:31:53 GMT References: <stephenkDD9Ay3.H7D@netcom.com> <40tjes$97f@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <40tmjq$uo2@navajo.gate.net> <410fu8$68q@meaddata.meaddata.com> Organization: White Picket Fences Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.advocacy