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

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From: Alan Lovejoy
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 03:59

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In <41lq80$abo@nnrp1.primenet.com> english@primenet.com (Lawson
English) writes: 
>
>Woodrow Shin (hunter@news.dorsai.org) wrote:
>: Organization: The Dorsai Embassy - New York
>: Distribution: 
>
>: 	The Power Mac will never trounce the Pentium as long as Pentium 
>: users enjoy a larger selection of software titles.  PC users will
always 
>: get first or equal dibs, on any software that comes out for the
desktop.  
>: And as long as PC users enjoy that first taste, they will always be 
>: superior to Mac users.  For instance does the Power Mac trounce the 
>: Pentium when running USNF?  Nope, because Power mac users don't have

>: USNF.

By this reasoning, CPM users have it all over WinDos users :-)

>
>So how does Poser do on a Pentium?
>
>How's QuickDraw GX doing?
>
>How many multiple-language wordprocessors do you have?
>
>Etc?
>
>: Does that explain my point?
>Hmmm? You were saying?
>Lawson English                            __  __     ____  ___       
>english@primenet.com                     /__)/__) / / / / /_  /\  / /_

Empires rise, empires fall.  It's a natural process.  The question
isn't whether WinDos will be supplanted by a worthy successor.  It's
when, and by what?

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From: lovejoya@ix.netcom.com (Alan Lovejoy)
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: 26 Aug 1995 03:59:27 GMT
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