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> "Kind of"?  Let's not mince words.  Open Transport is really one of the 
> first steps in showing what a new architecture built from the ground up 
> on PowerPC can do (when it works).  The speed is really nice (and even 
> then, it still rests on some system code that will be rewritten for 
> Copland) -- and it will only get better.

Ummm....as a PowerMac user I am well aware that PPC technology is already
far ahead of Intel's offerings, and that the gap is only getting wider.  I
am also aware that Copland will indeed result in a much faster, more
stable, more memory efficient system.  So it is unquestionable that the
technological future for Macs looks very bright compared the the
technological future of PC's and Win95 (although that is not to say that
their market share future does not look very bright, quite the contrary). 
However, owning a PowerMac 7200, I am not sure that I would use Open
Transport as a *premier* example.  It may well have faster throughput, but
for some reason it takes a really long time to make connections, find
servers, etc.  And since all the stuff I do is looking up servers and
making connections through Eudora, Netscape, and Newswatcher, rather than
large file transfer, it has resulted in significantly slower performance. 
In fact, I am thinking of switching to MacTCP.  Just my 2 cents. 
PowerMacs are certainly superior to PC's, but I'm not sure that Open
Transport itself is that great.