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Article #1689Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Woodrow Shin
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 04:21
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 04:21
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Alan Lovejoy (lovejoya@ix.netcom.com) wrote: : In <41lq80$abo@nnrp1.primenet.com> english@primenet.com (Lawson : English) writes: : > : >Woodrow Shin (hunter@news.dorsai.org) wrote: : > : >: 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 :-) I never heard of the acronym - CPM. I assume it must not be mainstream. : > : >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? Are you saying that the Power Mac, has a greater of selection of software for mainstream users then the Pentium? : >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? Good question. Who knows. -Woodrow
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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 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.dorsai.org!hunter From: hunter@news.dorsai.org (Woodrow Shin) Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Message-ID: <DDwHG2.G9H@dorsai.org> Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Sender: news@dorsai.org (Keeper of the News) Organization: The Dorsai Embassy - New York X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <3tmppr$8ck@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <philip-1207951230470001@macadamia.cs.wits.ac.za> <3u1id7$19b@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <DByyIp.KDF@utnetw.utoledo.edu> <3uk8lb$2ua@ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> <3vkii2$o6o@freud.inst.com> <3vlorg$kq3@steel.interlog.com> <41lq80$abo@nnrp1.primenet.com> <41m66v$4rk@ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 04:21:38 GMT