Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Robert Cassidy
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 18:56

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In article <417pv7$qp7@steel.interlog.com>, daveacg@interlog.com (Dave
Glue) wrote:

> William Taylor <wwtaylor@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?

'95 is not out yet? 400,000 people would disagree with you on that.

> 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.

That simple HAL was nearly implemented by half a dozen guys in Switzerland
in a few months. Copland is a *lot* more than HAL.

-- 
Bob Cassidy
UC Irvine

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 11:56:01 -0700
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