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

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 20:39
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In <DCMxy8.1n0v@austin.ibm.com> medcalf@ppc5.svo.dfw.ibm.com (Jeff Medcalf (214) 280-5970 IBM SDO) writes:

>In article <3vkj0q$o86@freud.inst.com>, gato@freud.inst.com (gato) writes:
>> IBM's computer division also announced that it is preinstalling Windows 95 
>> on the PPC systems.  As for Windows NT, if history is any reference, these
>> systems will bomb.  I wonder if IBM's as confused as I am?
>
>That's pretty funny, considering that Win95 won't *run* on PPC systems.
>
Come on, if the PPC could run MacOS under emulation what is preventing
it from doing so for Win95 :-)

Dan
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Date: Tue, 1 Aug 1995 20:39:39 GMT