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

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From: steve hix
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 02:01
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In article G9H@dorsai.org, hunter@news.dorsai.org (Woodrow Shin) writes:
> 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
> 
> : 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.

"Those who don't learn from history..."

CP/M once held roughly the same place in personal computing that MS/DOS does
now. It was just smaller and ran on slower, smaller machines. 8080 class.
Way back in the dim, misty mid 1970's.

Whatever do they teach kids in school these days?
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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (steve hix)
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium...
Date: 29 Aug 1995 02:01:01 GMT
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