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

#2594
From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 21:21
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: >> 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... 

Notice the phrase "Minor OS revisions".

: > What a crock.:-)  Everyone knows that everytime MS upgrades that 
: > bloated OS called Windows, it gets slower...

Major OS revisions (x.0) tend to bloat and slow down, minor ones (x.y, y
!= 0)tend to fix the problems introduced in version x.0.

: >If it didn't, the clone fans wouldn't be drooling all over Pentium Pros.

How foolish, people running an efficient OS wouldn't want to run it even 
faster?

Tony
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