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

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From: Martin Nisshagen
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 11:08

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Chad Irby wrote:

> The installed base of Macs has historically grown *faster* than the
> increase in market share, or absolute sales numbers.  Macs tend to stay
> in service *much* longer than Wintel boxes.  A 1987-era Mac II (or a Plus
> or an SE) can run System 7.5 and most modern software.  A 1987-era Wintel
> box is good for use as a fax server or a small hamster cage.

And an interpretation of that fact could be that the OS on the Mac still
isn't much better than it was in '87. They have a long way to even come 
close to some decent OSes like OS/2, NT, Unix, BeOS etc. And if they ever 
will, I'm quite sure that You won't be able to run it on your old Mac II.

-- 
Martin Nisshagen
MTS Technology, Sweden
martin@mts.se (MIME 1.0)

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 12:08:40 +0100
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