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Article #1496Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: ALEXANDER, DYLAN FLYNN
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 23:26
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 23:26
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In article <marke-2208951314000001@port47.annex2.nwlink.com>, marke@nwlink.com (Mark Eaton) writes... } }Its not vapor. Qix got parts of System 7.5 up and running on a CHRP }platform. If that is equivalent to a HAL, then SoftWindows is a HAL for }Windows. Nearly implemented means its not complete: no network, no sound, }etc. No to all of that. Parts of 7.5 run on _PreP_ not a CHRP machine. There are no CHRP machines. Hell, no one even knows what a CHRP is yet. And you completely fail to understand what a hardware abstraction layer is. Dylan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!vms1.tamu.edu!dfa3147 From: dfa3147@vms1.tamu.edu (ALEXANDER, DYLAN FLYNN) 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 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 22 Aug 1995 18:26 CDT Organization: Texas A&M University OpenVMScluster Distribution: world Message-ID: <22AUG199518264855@vms1.tamu.edu> References: <40vm6i$mt8@nnrp3.primenet.com> <DDKJ4A.Fq4@midway.uchicago.edu> <415ht5$3ul@bug.rahul.net> <4130pi$59d@news.net-connect.net> <marke-2208951314000001@port47.annex2.nwlink.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: vms1.tamu.edu News-Software: OpenVMS VNEWS 1.41