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Article #2937Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Anthony D. Tribelli
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 19:16
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 19:16
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Joe Sloan (jjs@taipei.ucr.edu) wrote: : No, I think he means that $135 is unattractive for an extra OS to : play around with... $135 is not bad for a primary OS. : ... Superior server alternatives exist, e.g. Linux & FreeBSD, : which in addition to being more powerful and flexible, come : bundled with tons of utilities, applications, tools and souce code. For the UNIX-centric yes, for others this is very debatable. : I would gladly pay $135 for some quality Unix tools - : but to be able to futz around with nt? nah, I'll pass, thanks.. Some people work with WinNT and only futz with linux. Which OS is better depends on what you are planning to do, there is no universal solution. Tony -- ------------------ Tony Tribelli adtribelli@acm.org
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