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

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From: Damir Smitlener
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:57

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Rex Niger wrote:
> 
> >>Ordinarily I'd disagree with you - but since BeOS has some pretty solid
> plumbing underneath the pretty face this might not be a bad idea.
> 
>   I think it'd be a great idea; It'd still be great if there was a 20%
> performance hit over an optimized SMP-Linux, (I doubt it would be anywhere
> *near* that high though) because you wouldn't have to deal with any
> dual-booting or peripheral driver nonsense. Furthermore you'd have instant
> access to actual word processors (not text editors) and other main stream
> apps. The only thing you'd lose are really long file names.

All good points, except that there _Are_ real wordprocessors for linux.
There are even, in fact, more real spreadsheets for linux (2) than there
are for PMacs(1).

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Damir Smitlener                   damir@mindspring.com        
aka Little Caesar                 gt7092d@prism.gatech.edu

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:57:56 -0500
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