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

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From: Aron S. Spencer
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 00:57
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\I think copland (the OS, not the kernel) will have much more native code
\than 7.5, especially in critical areas, but not 100% PPC. PPC vs 68K code
\is not what I was referring to when I said copland was a partial rewrite.
\Old source code (QuickDraw for example), recompiled for PPC, introduces
\some limitation in how copland applications can use preemptive
\multitasking. 

   Officially, the only non-native code left in Copland will be that which
deals with 68k emulation issues, where context switching would degrade
performance more than emulation. Thus native apps will never deal with
non-native code.

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From: aron@r8ix.com (Aron S. Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 19:57:18 -0500
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