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

#2590
From: kissmine
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 00:46
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I hate it when Mac users start talking about OS's and copmare 
them to other ones, because they have no idea what the hell they 
are talking about, they are full of shit, that why there using a 
mac. ( Mac Machine Always Crashes)   :-)
Titanium wrote:
> 
> In article <30E7B855.4D69@ix.netcom.com>, Tom Zimmer
> <ZForth@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> >As a developer on WindowsNT 3.5 and 3.51, I'm not sure it is faster than
> >WindowsNT 3.1, but it is certainly fast enough, as long as you have at
> >LEAST a 90 mHz Pentium, 32 Mb of memory, 256k cache, and a couple of gig
> >of 9 ms disk drive setup with 200 Mb of virtual memory.
> >
> >Tom Zimmer
> >
> >P.S. I am also a Mac user since 1984.
> 
> YEAH!!! preech on, brother Tom!!! eheheheh... Face it people, windoze is
> bloated as hell. System 7.5.1 can run on an LC with 4 megs of RAM, VERY
> comfortably. that is a 16 mhz 020 mind you. 7.0.1 can even run on a Mac
> Plus!!! that was the third mac to ever come out. (128k, 512k, Plus)
> 
> and when copland comes out, it will only run on a powermac, but that is
> NOT because of bloatedness, it is just that 68K machines are dying and
> apple doesnt want to waste their time. Copland is being written from the
> ground up specifically for the power macintosh. It is all native code, and
> it is wirtten EFFICIENTLY. that is the key...
> 
> oh, and to correct a post that was on here earlier, SOFTWARE WILL NOT HAVE
> THE BE UPDATED TO RUN WITH COPLAND!!!! INITs and cdevs (Extensions and
> Control Panels...) will have to be updated however. and even though
> programs will not HAVE to be updated, certain programs could benifit from
> certain small changes to take advantage of the new OSs speed. But that is
> not that big of a deal, I mean, look how many times that microsoft has
> screwed you over with that same type of thing....
> 
> --
> ====================================
>             -=TITANIUM=-
>          linger@norden1.com
> ====================================
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 00:46:14 +0000
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