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

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From: Don Schmelling
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 1996 16:50

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Kevin Hayes (hayes@ug.cs.dal.ca) wrote:
: veakblad@Glue.umd.edu (David T. Wang) wrote:
: 
: >Mel Martinez (mem@jhu.edu) wrote:
: 
: >: Whoever is saying this is quite wrong.  Copland will provide full
: >: preemptive multitasking and protected memory for processes.  Old legacy
: >: apps will run cooperatively within one larger process, but that process
: >: will be isolated from all other Copland processes.
: 
: >Why does this sound Win95-ish?
: 
: I don't know why. Win95 is quite a bit different. A 16-bit app in
: Win95 can crash your whole system, or take complete control. A system
: 7.5 app can only crash the GUI process, and can only take over control
: of that process, not the whole OS. Servers, i/o, daemons, and other
: non-gui related processes continue to run in the background.
: 
: Seems like a superior architecture to me. By the time there are enough

Superior Architecture...  Macs....   Well if you say so.

: 32-bit apps for Win95, we'll be enjoying complete preemptive
: multitasking, protected memory in Gershwin.
:
I would like to see Copland released before people start talking about
Gershwin in this manner.

I believe that there will be many 32-bit apps for Win95 long before
Gerswin comes out.

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