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

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From: Karl Thomas
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 19:51

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ghansen@isc.sjsu.edu (Gregory L Hansen) writes:

>In article <danpop.824477998@rscernix>, Dan Pop <danpop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
>>In <4g00uj$gaq@nuke.csu.net> ghansen@isc.sjsu.edu (Gregory L Hansen) writes:
>>You mean that Apple programmers are so incompetent that they're not able
>>to write code which can be easily migrated from one hardware platform
>>to another?  Linux was ported to a bunch of platforms and Apple is porting
>>it now to the PMac (they don't even seem to wait for the PPCP).  If this
>>was possible (so easily) with Linux (or *BSD), why do you think it would
>>be so difficult with software written by Apple's professional programmers.

None of the major personal computer OS were designed to be portable.  Not 
Amiga OS, not Windows 3.1/Windows '95 and not OS/2.  But the Mac OS can 
be run on PC's, Amigas, Ataris, Unix platforms (Macintosh Application 
Environment) and PowerPC based PowerMacs and PPCP machines.

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From: kathomas@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: 18 Feb 1996 12:51:36 -0700
Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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