Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware

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From: Philip Machanick
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 13:05

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In article <41cfoq$4hh@sundog.tiac.net>, Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> wrote:

> My point was that productivity studies are bad science.  I didn't
> intend to indicate that any particular result would be obtained, but
> rather that any obtained result was meaningless.

_All_ such studies are bad science?

I agree studies paid for by Apple have to be suspect, but if it was easy
to measure the opposite effect, why hasn't MS done it? They _have_
produced figures showing how much better 95 is than 3.x, haven't they?
-- 
Philip Machanick             Department of Computer Science
University of the Witwatersrand,   2050 Wits,  South Africa
phone 27(11)716-3309                     fax 27(11)339-7965
http://www.cs.wits.ac.za/~philip/       philip@cs.wits.ac.za

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From: philip@cs.wits.ac.za (Philip Machanick)
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: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware
Date: 23 Aug 1995 13:05:56 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Wits
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