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Article #1737Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Herkimer
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 01:55
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 01:55
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In article <DDyt8p.5G6@dorsai.org>, hunter@news.dorsai.org (Woodrow Shin) wrote: > Lawson English (english@primenet.com) wrote: > 6,000 apps, that run at Quadra speeds(Quadra 68040 25mhz), for > $2000+(This is for a minimal config), 600 Power Mac apps, which is incredibly > small, in number of choices, compared to # of Pentium apps. And > Dos/Windows, which runs even slower than a Quadra unless you pay > $1000 for a DOS Card and at least 8 megs of onboard RAM for the card. > 16 would probably be better. Just how many PENTIUM SPECIFIC apps are there. Less than 600.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!herkimer.tamu.edu!user From: Herkimer@MSC.tamu.edu 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: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 17:55:19 -0800 Organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Message-ID: <Herkimer-2708951755190001@herkimer.tamu.edu> 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$kq3@steel.interlog.com> <41obpv$a76@nnrp3.primenet.com> <DDyt8p.5G6@dorsai.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: herkimer.tamu.edu