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

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From: Illya Vaes
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:51
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daveacg@interlog.com (Dave Glue) writes:
>>>No, Nashville will likely be released before mind-96.  Minor upgrades,
>>>nothing spectacular.  It's basically the "fix pack", and why not name
>>>it Win96 is the process?  People aren't going to like buying a "95"
>>>product in 96, and MS knows that.
>>Not to mention that naming it Win96 offers them the added revenues from
>>*selling* this ("basically") fix pack...
>The upgrade is supposedly going to be free for previous Win95 owners.

We'll see.

>>>>Why does nobody compare OS/2 to win95 or copland?  Its better than win95, 
>>>>better than what I hear about copland, and its out now, with a nice update 
>>>>due out in a few months. (Merlin)
>>>Software.  Industry support.  
>>This is hardly intelligable English, but it sure smells like the MS party line
>>of "no software for OS/2", which is *only* true if the final criterium for there
>>to be "software" is the existence of MS Office...
>And it's hardly my quote either.  Take the time to reply to both
>seperate messages, please.

Who's was it then? I was reacting to "Software.  Industry support.". There's no
semblance of a sentence there. Just implications, false ones.
-- 
Illya Vaes  (ivaes@hr.ns.nl)
Holland Railconsult BV, Signalling CAD
Postbus 2855, 3500 GW Utrecht
Tel +31.30.2358586, Fax 2357208         "Do...or do not, there is no try" - Yoda
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From: Illya Vaes <ivaes@hr.ns.nl>
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:51:37 GMT