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

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From: Ravi Krishna Swamy
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 21:56

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In article <3126AD67.6EB9@mts.se>, Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> writes:
>Dan Pop wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>And NT was ported even faster than Linux to PowerPC. I think Motorola 
>basically did most of the port in a couple of months (with some help from
>Microsoft and IBM).

Wow.  NT is ported by professional programmers who are being paid
to port the OS.  Linux is being ported by programmers in their free
time who aren't getting paid.  If NT doesn't get ported faster then
something is seriously wrong with the portability of NT.

Ravi
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Ravi K. Swamy                http://www4.ncsu.edu/~rkswamy/www/
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From: rkswamy@eos.ncsu.edu (Ravi Krishna Swamy)
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 21:56:16 GMT
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