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

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From: Bernd "Bernie" Meyer
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:08
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cshink@lava.net (Cy K. Shinkawa) writes:

This is out of context, but still....

>Gates always said that Win95 was an interim system.  Why call
>something Windows95 and introduce it at the end of the year??

Because introducing it when it was ready would have looked rather stupid.
Think about it: "August 3rd, 1996: Microsoft introduces Windows95"

Bernie

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 21:08:42 GMT