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

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From: Dan Pop
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 
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
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