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Article #3279Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Hannu Nevalainen
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 22:06
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 22:06
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> +On 26-Feb-96 18:49:40 Christopher C. Wood > +<christw@meaddata.com> > +wrote about "Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???" > +in "comp.sys.amiga.advocacy"... > In article <Anders.Sundin-2502960158160001@aps.orgk2.lth.se>, > Anders.Sundin@orgk2.lth.se (Anders Sundin) writes: >|> danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote: >|> >If the file is on an unmounted disk on another Mac, nobody is >|> >going to magically mount the remote disk for you. If the file is >|> >on a Mac on a different continent, you'll be in deep trouble, >|> >while I can access it transparently via AFS, as if it were on my >|> >local disk. >|> Even if it was on an unmounted disk on a computer on a different >|> continent? > There are (I believe) AFS clients for a Macintosh. How strange! There is a "FileSystem" for the Amiga that uses the same acronym for its name; but that happens to be for harddisks and such only (gives better HD performance, storage use and safety). Is there some kind of relation between NFS(Unix) and AFS(Mac)? Can they "cooperate"? /Hannu E.K. Nevalainen, Amiga since '85. # 1996-02-27 @22:27 CET # >> Inform yourself... http://www.amiga.de/ <sb> /PowerAmiga_6/ "Our pre-emptive multitasking Operating System AmigaOS will be ported to the Power PC platform first. Our goal is to make our OS hardware independent to allow further ports on other platforms" (Quote from *.html at http://www.amiga.de/ Dated: 07/11/95)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!ida.his.se!usenet From: a95hanne@ida.his.se (Hannu Nevalainen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 27 Feb 1996 22:06:23 GMT Organization: NONE! Message-ID: <1482.6631T1384T1655@ida.his.se> References: <4gsrrk$bp7@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: oden.ida.his.se X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*