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

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From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 14:03
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In article <adtDC8Gyy.FzI@netcom.com> adt@netcom.com (Anthony D. Tribelli) writes:
>Win NT has always supported SMP, it was designed to from day one. This is 
>one area where linux is trying to catch up.

Yep. Its one thing NT's planners got right (there are some 8))

>Well maybe linux is trying to catch up in ATI Mach64 drivers too. I just
>tried to install the July 95 release of Slackware. X often crashes when it
>starts, if it makes it to the X terminal windows it will definitely crash
>when I enter any command. I had previously run the Summer 94 release of

Checked your hardware is correct, configured the board right - tried Xfree86
3.1.2 ... 

>that linux fails on. Maybe we can get someone at Microsoft or IBM to write
>video drivers for linux :-)? 

Nonono Microsoft let people write drivers for their own cards for the priviledge
of being able to sell them to windoze users. Linux isnt that market
controlling alas 

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