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

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From: Kenneth Jason Fair
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 14:43
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In article <brw-3012951114570001@dallas29.dfw.net>, brw@wtch.com (Branden
R. Williams) wrote:

>Yea, that may be the downfall of some machines.  I know personally, I will
>not be one of the people who changes everything.  I like the normal
>Copland windows.  One thing I am worried about tho... If one has to buy
>new software to run under copland as did the people upgrading from Win 3.1
>to Win95, I do not think that it will catch on in the consumer market at
>first.

The answer to this is "no", with the exception of system extensions and
control panels.

Well, there may be a couple of things that break.  But there always are.

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