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Article #1456Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Dan Pop
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:23
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:23
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In <rmcassid-2108951156010001@dante.eng.uci.edu> rmcassid@uci.edu (Robert Cassidy) writes: >In article <417pv7$qp7@steel.interlog.com>, daveacg@interlog.com (Dave >Glue) wrote: > >> William Taylor <wwtaylor@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> >> From "long" experience? Amazing, considering the things not even out >> yet. 95's weakness is not complete memory protection, and yet you >> advocate the Mac, which is far worse in that area? > >'95 is not out yet? 400,000 people would disagree with you on that. None of them is running a fully supported, production version, of Win 95, however. Beta, preview, etc versions have been released for a _very_ long time, since the days when everybody used to call it Chicago. >> And that "simple" HAL is the main reason Copland will be out in a >> year, not in a month. Hardly an easy task at all. > >That simple HAL was nearly implemented by half a dozen guys in Switzerland >in a few months. Copland is a *lot* more than HAL. Injecting pure vapour in a discussion is a standard practice for any self-respecting advocate. What is "nearly implemented" supposed to mean, BTW? Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!CERN.ch!rscernix!danpop From: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch Message-ID: <danpop.809097807@rscernix> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #9 (NOV) References: <40vm6i$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> <417pv7$qp7@steel.interlog.com> <rmcassid-2108951156010001@dante.eng.uci.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 13:23:27 GMT