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Article #2991Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Rob Riebau
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 20:12
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 20:12
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Dave Glue (daveacg@interlog.com) wrote: : On 18 Jan 1996 00:19:45 GMT, jjs@taipei.ucr.edu (Joe Sloan) wrote: : >In article <4djce3$a26@steel.interlog.com>, : >Dave Glue <daveacg@interlog.com> wrote: : > : >>>BTW, "sources" claim that Klamath will still be faster than the fastest : >>>Pentium. No other performance details were available and Intel declined to : >>>comment on rumors. : >> : >>Faster- on NT only, of course (OS/2 as well). : > : >Wrong - definitely faster on Linux, FreeBSD, netBSD, Solaris and SCO - : >and NOT any faster on win95 (yawn - nt? who knows? who cares? ) : From the available software selection, apparently more developers : don't care about Unix variants on the PC. I love linux and use it at home (the low RAM, HD req, and lack of price make it great for the clients on a home-based client/server LAN!!) However, it looks like NT is starting to make a good impression in the workstation market. I'm no MicroSmug advocate, but I'll have to admit that NT isn't bad. I took an IBM education course on NT architecture, and it is, at the least, desgined very well. Plus, who knows where MS will go with the POSIX support in NT? I have only heard rumors that they aren't going to do much with it at all and that it's only there to meet gov regulations. In any case, it is taking over a lot of workstation environments that once where 100% Unix. -- Rob Riebau UMBC Computer Science -- rrieba1@umbc.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.umbc.edu!rrieba1 From: rrieba1@umbc.edu (Rob Riebau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600 Date: 23 Jan 1996 20:12:08 GMT Organization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Message-ID: <4e3feo$ht@news.umbc.edu> References: <30F1D5A5.637A@medcor.mcgill.ca> <4d4omk$otj@steel.interlog.com> <jragosta-1201960805050001@ppp-1018.dca.net> <4djce3$a26@steel.interlog.com> <4dk3n1$oc5@galaxy.ucr.edu> <4dkvdc$2t0@steel.interlog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: umbc9.umbc.edu NNTP-Posting-User: rrieba1 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]