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

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From: ALEXANDER, DYLAN FLYNN
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 00:09
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In article <rmcassid-2108951156010001@dante.eng.uci.edu>, rmcassid@uci.edu (Robert Cassidy) writes...
}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.

Several hundered thousand who don't and can't get it would agree
with him.

}> 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.

Those half dozen guys in Switzerland didn't incorporate a HAL. The 
ported parts of the OS to a certain platform. Not the same thing at
all.


Dylan
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From: dfa3147@vms1.tamu.edu (ALEXANDER, DYLAN FLYNN)
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 21 Aug 1995 19:09 CDT
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