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

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From: Eddie Chiu
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 02:21

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adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) wrote:

>Colin Smith (colins@mojo.europe.dg.com) wrote:
>: What OS would you be running? Winblows doesn't support SMP, neither does
>: DOS, neither does NT yet. Linux it's being worked on.

>Win NT has always supported SMP, it was designed to from day one. This is 
>one area where linux is trying to catch up.
What is SMP? 
>Well maybe linux is trying to catch up in ATI Mach64 drivers too. I just
>tried to install the July 95 release of Slackware. X often crashes when it
>starts, if it makes it to the X terminal windows it will definitely crash
>when I enter any command. I had previously run the Summer 94 release of
>Yggdrasil with a Tseng ET-4000 and everything worked fine. Win31, Win95,
>WinNT, and OS/2 Warp all work on the same system with ATI Mach64 video
>that linux fails on. Maybe we can get someone at Microsoft or IBM to write
>video drivers for linux :-)? 

>Tony
>-- 
>------------------
>Tony Tribelli
>adtribelli@acm.org

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