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

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From: HSUEH WALTER C
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 14:38

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On 11 Mar 1996, Dan Pop wrote:
> >How many shipping WinNT/Win95-native applications are there?  I've
> >been seeing counts around 200.  There are 1,500 native PowerMac
> >applications, and around 10,000 MacOS applications.
> 
> Let's avoid comparing apples to oranges.  Compare MacOS (the currently
> shipping version) applications with Windows 3.1 applications and
> shipping 32-bit Windows applications with shipping Copland applications.  
> What gives?

Naw, let's compare shipping Win95/NT applications to native PowerMac
applications.  According to Microsoft, there are "1400+" shipping
32-bit Windows applications.  Or we can compare Copland apps to
Win32 apps.


Regards,

Walter Hsueh
hsuehw@ecf.utoronto.ca

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