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Article #3381Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
From: Kevin B. Hayes
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:24
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 16:24
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Dan Pop (danpop@mail.cern.ch) wrote: : MacOS 7.x -- Windows 3.x: no memory protection, no PMT : Copland -- Win95: limited memory protection and PMT, due to backward : compatibility requirements. : Gershwin -- Win/NT: full memory protection and PMT, limited backward : compatibility. First of all, you are saying OSes are "equivalent" based on memory management. I'm sorry, but Win95 was matched in 1991 with 7.0 - if you count other features. That's your problem. If the memory model was the pinnacle of the usefulness of an OS we'd all be using Unix. I wonder why we're not? : It's clearly not my fault that the Mac equivalents of Win95 and Win/NT : are not here and nobody knows when they'll be. This doesn't mean that : MacOS 7.x apps can be meaningfully compared to Win95 or Win/NT apps. : Power or 68k, MacOS 7.x apps can be compared only to Win 3.x apps. They're not here because we upgraded our macs' OSes long ago. Get a clue, there's more to an OS than memory management.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!news.dal.ca!hayesk From: hayesk@is.dal.ca (Kevin B. Hayes) 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....??? Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel Date: 19 Mar 1996 16:24:53 GMT Organization: Dalhousie University Message-ID: <4imn4l$glo@News.Dal.Ca> References: <nevin-0602962253080001@150.135.1.79> <danpop.824304112@rscernix> <4g00uj$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> <ted.oliver-1403960716070001@129.219.116.52> <danpop.826855661@rscernix> NNTP-Posting-Host: is.dal.ca X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]