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Article #1859Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
From: David P. Summers
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 02:03
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 02:03
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In article <420ejn$dib@sashimi.wwa.com>, blackbob@sashimi.wwa.com (G) wrote: > For starters, you should compare models' years instead of CPU's > years. The Classic is from 1990. (I know, I know... The Plus > can, too...but the 386 was released the same year!) The Plus come out before the 386. I don't remember if it came out before the 286. > Second, when Copland is released your situation (not running on > anything before the PPC, from 1992?) will be worse than ours (not > running a good OS on anything before 386, from 1986). So people will be able to use System 7 to run new software. Conversely, it has been stated that anything with a 286 instruction set is obsolete. Clearly obsolesence is faster in the PC world and is forced by more than just speed. > Third, why do the same people who denounce MS's dedication to > backwards compatibility (long filenames compatible with old FAT, > run 15 year old DOS programs, etc.) and denounce PC backwards > compatibility in general (Intel's dedication to the 8086 set, > ability to use a 15 year old ISA card in a Pentium, etc.) find > Apple's dedication to the old hardware so holy? The point is that, since the Mac had a more modern design to begin with, it doesn't have to force people to choose between things like filenames more than 8 characters long and being able to use old software. The really ironic thing, is that by say that coming out with a Mac like interface is such a great thing, they are saying that before Windows 95 people should have been buying Macs. ________________________ (Disclaimer: If NASA had any position on any of this do you think they would have ME give it?) David Summers - Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.ARC.NASA.Gov
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ethyl-the-frog.arc.nasa.gov!user From: Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.arc.nasa.gov (David P. Summers) 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,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!! Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 18:03:56 -0800 Organization: NASA - Ames Research Center Message-ID: <Summers-3108951803560001@ethyl-the-frog.arc.nasa.gov> References: <3v692u$iii@news.ios.com> <Peersen-2408951024500001@chem8.colorado.edu> <809581635-0-2741@henry.henry.net> <hotelca-2808952252320001@192.0.2.1> <420ejn$dib@sashimi.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ethyl-the-frog.arc.nasa.gov