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

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 19:50
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In <4kafvi$n4t@pellew.ntu.edu.au> jamesm@it.ntu.edu.au (James McArthur) writes:

>G'Day Dan Pop, you wrote:
>: In <nevin-2203960538520001@mac-nevin.cs.arizona.edu> nevin@CS.Arizona.EDU (Nevin ":-]" Liber) writes:
>
>: >What version of Netscape?  Go to a JavaScript page and let it sit there
>: >for a while.  People have reported not only noticeable slowdowns of their
>: >machines, but even crashes of the supposedly uncrashable Unix (it has
>: >memory protection; how could an app possibly crash it?  How could the
>: >Titanic sink?).
>
>: Give me an URL which will cause Netscape 2.0 to crash my Unix box or cut
>: the crap.
>
>Okay. Place a large picture on you background.
>(The one I used to have was the Enterprise at 1024x768x24)
>Pick a graphic intensive sight, and then watch Netscape go bye-byes.

Did you actually bother to read what I was asking?  If you did, you'd have
noticed that I wanted to see Solaris go bye-bye because of Netscape, not
Netscape itself.

Dan
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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
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Date: 8 Apr 96 19:50:30 GMT
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