Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware

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From: Ron Shepard
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 20:35

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In article <id.UBRM1.J0A@nmti.com>, peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:

>Depends. What's the job?
>
>If it's software development, UNIX will win hands down.

You hit the nail right on the head.  I want to do fortran and C software
development for unix machines, and run scientific production codes in the
unix environment, but I also want to write my papers and do some of the
data analysis on MacOS.  And I really want to do these things on my
desktop machine and also on a portable machine (or perhaps a single
dockable machine ;-), and I want to do them at the same time in different
windows.  And this isn't anything new, I've wanted to do this for about 10
years now since I first started using the Mac.  There has always been talk
that this would be possible (from DEC, and then Cray, and most recently
from the IBM/APPLE/MOTO PPC alliance), but it hasn't happened yet.

$.02 -Ron Shepard

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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
Subject: Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware
Date: 24 Aug 1995 20:35:50 GMT
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