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

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From: Chad Irby
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 16:39
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Shin, Ronald S (shinr@coral.indstate.edu) wrote:

: You're joking, right?  Softwindows on my friend's Quadra 68040 33 mHZ 
: barely matched a 386 DX 25.  This was with 16 megs of RAM as well...  

...an older version of Soft Windows, on a machine that's 1/10 the speed, 
and you're surprised that a newer machine with a better version of the 
software runs at a much higher speed...?

-- 

Chad Irby           /    My greatest fear: that future generations will,
cirby@gate.net     /      for some reason, refer to me as an "optimist."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
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Date: 3 Aug 1995 12:39:47 -0400
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