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Article #2571Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: The Garbage Man
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 22:11
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 22:11
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In article <philw-3012951518520001@philw.users.xplor.com>,
philw@xlpor.com (P A Williamson) wrote:
>In article <adtDKD2D7.8Fw@netcom.com>, adt@netcom.com (Anthony D.
>Tribelli) wrote:
>
> <snip>
>> This is not unique to the Macintosh. Minor OS revisions often have
>> performance improvements: Win3.0 -> 3.1, OS/2 2.0 -> 2.1, WinNT 3.1
->
>> 3.5, ... Win96/97 will probably have better performance than 95.
>>
>
> What a crock.:-) Everyone knows that everytime MS upgrades that
bloated
>OS called Windows, it gets slower. If it didn't, the clone fans
wouldn't
>be drooling all over Pentium Pros.
>
> Now the Amigas OS (OTHO) does get faster with updates. Anyone going
from
>AmigaOS 1.3 to 3.1 can tell you that the performance of their system
>improved. Anyone going from Win2 to Win(whatever) can tell you of
hardware
>upgrade stories.
>
> The bloat in Microsoft Windows code has done more to improve the Intel
>chips then anyone wanting the apps on the system to run faster (which
is
>just a nice side affect.)
>
> Throw enough hardware at something, and you can get *any* piece of
>software to run faster. I guess this makes up for bad/sloppy code. :-)
>
> Microsoft is the only company _I_ know of that has 80 million Beta
>testers and still can't get it right!
Even if there was an OS for the IBM PC clone that could match Workbench
3.1 on the Amiga , there would be no support for it, because almost
every IBM user is a slave of Bill Gates's Microsoft empire. I ask myself
again, Why am I using MS-DOS and Windows? Not for much longer........
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I cut off my dog's head
I looked at it and named it Med
Hey Med what does it feel like to be a head?
It feels like led, said Ned the Head
Oh, I'm glad I'm not a head. - a poem I wrote for English a long time ago...
I don't think the teacher cared much fer it
neither do I...................
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news-2.csn.net!usenet From: noone@nowhere.com (The Garbage Man) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Sat, 30 Dec 95 22:11:23 GMT Organization: SuperNet Inc. (303)-296-8202 Denver Colorado Message-ID: <4c4k9h$ooc@news-2.csn.net> References: <m.duran-1611950252110001@port19.codetel.net.do> <49gkhp$3ag@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <30c6ee29.1582369@news.metronet.com> <1995Dec18.145106.44180@ac.dal.ca> <jragosta-1812951544340001@ppp-1017.dca.net> <4bpgk6$jc1@vodka.intele.net> <4bvd1r$qn3@sloth.swcp.com> <brw-2912951023390001@dallas28.dfw.net> <adtDKD2D7.8Fw@netcom.com> <philw-3012951518520001@philw.users.xplor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.160.122.1 X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4