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Article #2603Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 21:38
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 1996 21:38
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Titanium (linger@norden1.com) wrote: : 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... Are you thinking of Gershwin, I would agree that it is built "from the ground up" for PPC. Copland, IMHO, sounds like a wimpy Win95-ish upgrade. A lot of cosmetics, but little new technology, compared to System 7.5. : 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... Application that depend on these inits will not run. Tony -- ------------------ Tony Tribelli adtribelli@acm.org
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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 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!netcom.com!adt From: adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Message-ID: <adtDKKpFq.IC4@netcom.com> Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] 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> <30e7ed1c.50295535@news.metronet.com> <30E7B855.4D69@ix.netcom.com> <linger-0101961329420001@linger.norden1.com> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 21:38:14 GMT Sender: adt@netcom10.netcom.com