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Article #2612Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 19:18
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 19:18
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Kenneth Jason Fair (kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu) wrote: : >... If one has to buy : >new software to run under copland as did the people upgrading from Win 3.1 : >to Win95... : : 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. And how is this different from Win95, most DOS and Win 3.1 apps work? Some that require special drivers which are no longer compatible don't. Others that are ill-behaved don't. Secondly, a new version of an OS provides software vendors with a perfect excuse to offer upgrades. 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: <adtDKMDnB.247@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> <brw-3012951114570001@dallas29.dfw.net> <kjfair-0301960843050001@ngrh-34.rh.uchicago.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 19:18:46 GMT Sender: adt@netcom6.netcom.com