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

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From: Christopher C. Wood
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 23:31
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In article <adtDKMDnB.247@netcom.com>, adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) writes:
|> 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? 

Legacy Win3.1 apps can lock up a whole Win95 system.  Legacy MacOS Some 
applications won't affect Copland-savvy MacOS applications.

Chris
-- 
Speaking only for myself, of course.
Chris Wood    christw@lexis-nexis.com   ChrisCWood@eworld.com
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From: christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C. Wood)
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: 9 Jan 1996 23:31:29 GMT
Organization: LEXIS-NEXIS, Dayton OH
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