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Article #2831Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Martin Nisshagen
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:03
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:03
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Ravi Krishna Swamy wrote: > >Be doesn't follow the standards that all other PPC vendors (Apple, IBM, > >FirePower, Motorola etc) has agreed on. > What the hell standard is this? So you are telling me that I can The first standard that everyone uses now (except Apple) is PReP. It can run AIX, NT, Solaris, OS/2 etc. > get an RS/6000 and run MacOS on it? The same machine runs NT? This will be true with the next version of PReP (who is called CHRP) that also Apple has agreed to follow. > You should attack the idiots who created the PowerPC for not being > able to agree on a standard for so long. I agree that it would have been much better if they had agreed earlier. > Be along with Apple, IBM, and Motorola have said they will support > CHRP now that the standard is supposedly finished. I didn't know that Be supports the CHRP standard (as they didn't bother to support PReP). That's a good thing. -- Martin Nisshagen MTS Technology, Sweden martin@mts.se (MIME 1.0)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!mn5.swip.net!usenet From: Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> 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: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 17:03:53 +0100 Organization: MTS Technology, Sweden Message-ID: <30FBCC69.1A74@mts.se> References: <4cf46j$1ev4@hopi.gate.net> <4dc30m$3ma@daily-planet.nodak.edu> <4dcksv$ijm@sundog.tiac.net> <30FB058B.408@mts.se> <4dfcft$2k8@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup100-151.swipnet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (WinNT; I)