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

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From: Jon Hirota
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 1995 19:58

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> > : >: 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?

It's funny that many DOS users don't know that their beloved OS is based
heavily on CPM. In fact Ver 1.0 of MS-DOS looked like a recompiled CPM
with a few modifications.

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