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

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 18:34

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In <314f6f4d.63581907@news.onramp.net> dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:

>On 15 Mar 96 20:47:50 GMT, danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop) wrote:
>
>>In <Pine.SGI.3.91.960314093246.7096A-100000@skule.ecf> HSUEH  WALTER C <hsuehw@ecf.toronto.edu> writes:
>
>>Sorry for my cluelessness, but what's the difference between a
>>Win95/NT application and a Win32 application?
>
>Win95 / NT - Windows 32 bit app with NT 3.51 / Win95 API calls
>Win32s - 32 bit subsystem, runnable in Win3.1, WFWG, and (older Win32s
>versions) OS/2.  
>
>Win95 / NT apps, obviously, are preferable; they're termed "real" 32
>bit apps.  

Win32 apps are Win95/NT apps, period.  Win32s is a red herring here,
being some sort of Microsoft marketing trick, designed to make Win 3.11
users feel better :-)

Dan
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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: 20 Mar 96 18:34:34 GMT
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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