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Article #2011Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
From: Don Schmelling
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 02:00
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 1995 02:00
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Hotel California (hotelca@cris.com) wrote:
: In article <42d9lt$1ns@steel.interlog.com>, daveacg@interlog.com (Dave
: Glue) wrote:
:
: > Summers@Ethyl-the-Frog.ARC.NASA.gov (David P. Summers) wrote:
: >
: > And to say older Macs haven't been prematurely pressured into
: > obsolence with Apples "A Mac a week" introduction policy is
: > ridiculous. 386's can run Pentium software, just more slowly. 68040
: > Macs can not run Power Mac software. Copland as of now will not run
: > on any 680X0 machine.
:
: Power Mac only software is very rare. Most software packages ship either
: in two versions that the installer picks from as appropriate, or as a fat
: binary which runs on either machine.
That is sad to hear. I keep hearing how good Power Macs are but they
do not even have a good software base? Maybee someday you will actually
see software developed for the power Mac.
: > Or your expecations are lower. I find that often to be the case.
:
: Or maybe your expectations are higher than necessary. Sure PMT is
: supposed to be so much better than CMT but CMT is good. It gets the job
: done. Sure, having a supercomputer in every school with terminals on
: every desk would be nice but having a computer lab in every high school is
: good enough.
In my book CMT is not good. It may get the job done, but I would not
want to use a system that did not have PMT unless I had to.
:
: > It's the same thread that platform advocacy always follows. Just as
: > when the Mac users get pre-emptive multitasking and proper
: > multithreading, they'll be shouting the advantages from the rooftops,
: > and Coplands "superior" crash protection, even though many claim it's
: > "good enough" now.
:
: It *IS* good enough now, it can however get better. Anything can be
: better than Windows, even better than Windows 95.
I think the Amiga is even better.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!olympus.net!usenet From: dons@olympus.net (Don Schmelling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!! Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.destroy.microsoft Date: Wed, 6 Sep 95 19:00:06 PDT Organization: Internet for the Olympic Peninsula Message-ID: <19950906.118DCF8.10C69@olympus.net> References: <3v692u$iii@news.ios.com> <hotelca-2808952252320001@192.0.2.1> <420ejn$dib@sashimi.wwa.com> <Summers-3108951803560001@ethyl-the-frog.arc.nasa.gov> <42765o$5k2@sashimi.wwa.com> <Summers-0309950017420001@arclan-ara-gw-2.arc.nasa.gov> <42d9lt$1ns NNTP-Posting-Host: papm006.olympus.net X-Newsreader: TIN [AMIGA 1.3 950726BETA PL0]