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

#2580
From: Joshua Galun
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 03:54
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David Corn (dcorn@metronet.com) 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.

: Try WinNT 3.5 for the most obvious example.  :)

: > 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.

: Not necessarily.  The examples he gave were all correct.

	you cannot say that all the examples he gave were correct after 
agreeing that his example of Windows speeding up in upgrades was 
incorrect.  

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From: zool@outland.cyberwar.com (Joshua Galun)
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....???
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Date: 1 Jan 1996 03:54:23 GMT
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