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

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From: Peat Blackthorne
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 06:09

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Chad Irby (cirby@gate.net) wrote:

: Not to mention- why should people upgrade to the Pentium Pro, unless 
: they're part of the 3% or so of the market using Windows NT?  If they run 
: W95 or 3.1, they'll get a *slower* machine for their money.

	I've got one word for ya:  UNIX.

	The 80x86 UNIX (ala FreeBSD, Linux, etc.) workstation market 
might actualy have a chance in the mid-ranged systems market now that the 
PP is around.  Before, if you wanted power, you got a SPARC, Alpha, or 
MIPS.  Now we've got another option.
	Of course, there are the UNIXes for the 68k chips.

	And, of course, if you really wanted the power, you'd forget 
Intel and Motorola, and buy yourself an R10k, or an UltraSPARC.  ;)

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Date: 12 Jan 1996 06:09:28 GMT
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