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Article #1802Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Alan Lovejoy
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 10:43
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 10:43
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In <41u9ba$ar1@berlin.infomatch.com> arc@infomatch.com (Andrew Chang) writes: > >Alan Lovejoy <lovejoya@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >> >>One way to catalyze a change from WinDOS to some worthy rival would be >>a performance advantage of 4 to 1, price parity, and a reasonable >>supply of the high-quality apps for the competing OS. >> >>The PowerPC meets 3 out of the 4 requirements already. It may achieve >>the final one in the post-604/620 generation--about mid 1997. > > Out of curiousity, what is the fourth requirement? By my count, >you listed three. > > Andrew > The competitor has to have product available in sufficient quantity, of course :-) Actually, I didn't think of this at the time--the "3 out of 4" was a typo :-(. Unless I was thinking of something I have since forgetten...?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ix.netcom.com!netnews From: lovejoya@ix.netcom.com (Alan Lovejoy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 29 Aug 1995 10:43:00 GMT Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <41uqvk$c5o@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> References: <3tmppr$8ck@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <3vlorg$kq3@steel.interlog.com> <DDwHG2.G9H@dorsai.org> <41o2a8$72v@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <41u9ba$ar1@berlin.infomatch.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ix-al12-02.ix.netcom.com