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Article #2704Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: don winsby
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 05:59
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 05:59
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Anthony D. Tribelli wrote: > > Kevin Hayes (hayes@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote: > : Then you should read the Copland Technical Overview on Apple's site. It is a > : complete rewrite - true backward compatibility is a factor - but the rewritten > : kernel and memory management should give a BIG improvement over 7.5 > > Copland is a partial, not a complete rewrite. Copland apps have to live > with some handicaps due to this. Read some of the other postings in this > thread, this has already been discussed quite a bit, I'm sure discussion > is not over yet. Yes, copland is an improvement. But it seems more like a > Win3.1 to Win95 sort of improvement, not a Win3.1 to WinNT sort of > improvement. > > Tony > -- > ------------------ > Tony Tribelli > adtribelli@acm.org hmmm. its been stated many times that copland will be entirely native. copland's I/O system, including interrupt handlers, will be entirely native. open transport will also be entirely native. the file manager, entirely native. are you suggesting that since system 7.5 is partially native and apple will be using some of that code that this is not a rewrite?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!News.MO.NET!usenet From: don winsby <donw@38north.com> 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: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 23:59:30 -0600 Organization: -=MO.NET=- MVP-Net, Inc's Missouri Operations Message-ID: <30F4A742.2F07@38north.com> References: <m.duran-1611950252110001@port19.codetel.net.do><49gkhp$3ag@newsbf02.news.aol. <1996Jan8.132733.44712@ac.dal.ca> <adtDKvpGI.EBB@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pm1x9.dialip.mo.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b5 (Macintosh; I; PPC)