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

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From: Jeff George
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 07:57
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On 18 Sep 1995, David Findley wrote:

> In article <435bil$1ab@mn5.swip.net>, Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> wrote:
> 
> > laddvt@aol.com (Ladd Van Tol) wrote:
> > >If you mean 32-bit *preemptive* multitasking OS, then you'd be right.
> > >Otherwise, I would suspect that MacOS is more common.
> > 
> > Yepp. I ment real multitasking (no macos) and real 32-bit (no win95).
>                ^^^^
> You misspelled pre-emptive. :)
> 
> David Findley
> davidf@kepler.umsl.edu

And you mis-spelled mis-spelled, by the same token. Actually, "preemptive" 
is a preferred common spelling, without the hyphen (as is "misspell.") 
Talk about picking totally irrelevant nits! Isn't that why there's a 
comp.os.multitasking.jargon.spelling newsgroup?

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 02:57:00 -0500
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