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

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From: Martin Nisshagen
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 11:08
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Chad Irby wrote:

> > >Seems like a superior architecture to me. By the time there are enough
> > >32-bit apps for Win95, we'll be enjoying complete preemptive
> > >multitasking, protected memory in Gershwin.                                       ^^^^^^^^
(Note to new users: that's Gershwin - the OS to be released after Copeland
- wich is the OS to be released after the PPCP version of System 7.5 - wich 
in turn will be released sometimes this(?) year.)

> > Gee- kind of like what Win NT users have been enjoying for years. 
> Yeah- all six of them.

If it will continue to be as late as it looks, I wouldn't be too suprised
if NT will become six years before the first version of Gershwin is even
released.

Rgrds,

m a r t i n  n

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From: Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se>
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 12:08:51 +0100
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