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Article #2648Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 18:16
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 18:16
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Pascal Haakmat (pascal@mediamatic.nl) wrote: : > 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. : If that were true, Apple could have released their wimpy upgrade before : Win95 ever hit the streets (and it would have done nobody much good I : suppose). More native code takes time, the new kernel takes time, integrating this kernel with the old system code and extensions takes time (especially given the cludgy nature of this merging of old and new technology), the new cosmetics takes time, new features take time ... If Apple could have done this before Win95 they would have. 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: <adtDKrur4.FJB@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> <adtDKKpFq.IC4@netcom.com> <30ED2A25.5B63@mediamatic.nl> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 18:16:16 GMT Sender: adt@netcom3.netcom.com