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Article #2583Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: David Corn
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 14:21
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 14:21
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On 1 Jan 1996 03:54:23 GMT, zool@outland.cyberwar.com (Joshua Galun) wrote: >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. Uh...huh? I agreed that he was correct - WinNT 3.5 is significantly faster than WinNT3.1, for example. I'll rephrase my above line to read - "Try WinNT 3.5 for the most obvious example of how he's right." - Better?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!feenix.metronet.com!news From: dcorn@metronet.com (David Corn) 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: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 14:21:09 GMT Organization: Texas Metronet, Inc (login info (214/705-2901 - 817/571-0400)) Message-ID: <30e7ed1c.50295535@news.metronet.com> 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$qn3@sloth.swcp.com> <brw-2912951023390001@dallas28.dfw.net> <adtDKD2D7.8Fw@netcom.com> <philw-3012951518520001@philw.users.xplor.com> <30e5f7e7.2440179@news.metronet.com> <4c7ltf$qv8@bandit.cyberwar.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dal186.metronet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent .99c/16.141