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In <4hpfke$e43@News.Dal.Ca> hayes@ug.cs.dal.ca (Kevin Hayes) writes:

>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 

Where exactly is my "ignorance" 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. 

This doesn't mean that Gershwin is available now or in the foreseeable
future, right?  So, what part of my message is showing my ignorance???

>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.

Again, pure vapour vs shipping OS's and applications.  That's the best
a MacOS fan can do today.  Can you say lame? 

BTW, if a Mac bigot says '99, what could be a reasonable shipping date
for Gershwin?  That is, assuming Apple will be still alive and kicking
by that time :-)

>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.

Of course it isn't, once you start putting 16-bit crap on it.  The point
is that you don't have to.  Win95 is by no means a technology marvel,
but correctly used provides better functionality than MacOS (the
non-vapour flavour :-)

Dan
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