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Article #2621Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Dave Glue
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 07:09
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 07:09
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On 3 Jan 1996 20:54:05 GMT, christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood) wrote: >In article <adtDKKpFq.IC4@netcom.com>, adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) writes: > >|> 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. > >I see. A brand-new fully preemptive, protected-memory microkernal >operating system backward-compatible with todays' applications is >"little new technology". Whatever you say, cap'n. You apparently have news that we don't. It is not fully pre-emptive. Old Mac apps are multitasked co-operatively, and the toolbox routines are apparently not pre-emptive as well. It makes a lot of tradeoffs- likely not as severe as Win95, but if it was "fully" pre-emptive and "fully" protected, not much need for Gershwin is there? But there is, as those features are among the most desirable in Gerswhin.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.interlog.com!news From: daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) 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 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: Thu, 04 Jan 1996 07:09:13 GMT Organization: InterLog Internet Services Message-ID: <4cfk8i$g5e@steel.interlog.com> 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> <adtDKKpFq.IC4@netcom.com> <4ceqdd$pbq@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: daveacg.interlog.com