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danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:

>In <4hmshl$48u@News.Dal.Ca> hayes@ug.cs.dal.ca (Kevin Hayes) writes:

>>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.

>The minor difference is that Win95 and 32-bit versions of many major
>apps are here now, while Gershwin might not show up this century, for
>all we know.  Minor difference, indeed :-)

Your ignorance is showing - Any app written for Copland will run in
Gershwin and be fully protected, preempted, etc. Copland apps will be
ready for available at the end of this year. 

Gershwin is not as big a change from Copland as Copland is from System
7.5 - basically Gershwin is Copland with the ToolBox fully reentrant,
and a few other features and technologies we don't have yet. In other
words, Copland is a complete rewrite, Gershwin is not. I expect to see
Gershwin in 98, maybe 99. By then there will be many Copland/Gershwin
apps shipping.

While there are some Win95 apps shipping (not much compared to the
number of PowerMac apps shipping), Win95 is still easily crashed by
device drivers, TSRs and other utils that have free reign on the
system. It's not as stable as you would like to believe.

I just worked at a technology show this week where I saw a guy in the
booth beside me take about 3 or 4 hours just to get an internet
connection working from an ethernet line - he ended up crashing Win95
quite a few times. (note: that's crashing, not simply rebooting) This
guy is not an idiot either - he's a very knowledgeable PC support
person.

BTW, My Mac booted and was instantly connected.

>Dan
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