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Article #3377Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Dan Pop
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 20:47
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 20:47
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In <Pine.SGI.3.91.960314093246.7096A-100000@skule.ecf> HSUEH WALTER C <hsuehw@ecf.toronto.edu> writes: >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. Sorry for my cluelessness, but what's the difference between a Win95/NT application and a Win32 application? Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, CN Division Email: danpop@mail.cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 R-004, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!rcp6.elan.af.mil!rscernix!danpop From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....??? Date: 15 Mar 96 20:47:50 GMT Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics Message-ID: <danpop.826922870@rscernix> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.824304112@rscernix> <4g00uj$gaq@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824477998@rscernix> <4g3t0l$b71@nuke.csu.net> <danpop.824606547@rscernix> <mem-1902961857250001@durin.pha.jhu.edu> <4gckcj$de3@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <4hmshl$48u@News.Dal.Ca> <danpop.826237354@rscernix> <4hpfke$e43@News.Dal.Ca> <danpop.826424237@rscernix> <4i1lvn$899@meaddata.lexis-nexis.com> <danpop.826581877@rscernix> <Pine.SGI.3.91.960314093246.7096A-100000@skule.ecf> NNTP-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #7 (NOV)