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- From: crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com (Shane Kuntz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 22:21:32 GMT
- Organization: SDRC
- Sender: crkuntz@sgiis4 (Shane Kuntz)
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- In article <DnyHG6.GG0@info.uucp>, mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin) writes:
- |> Shane Kuntz (crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com) wrote:
- |> : In article <4hmcmb$88l@zeus.ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de>, Joerg Stegemann <stegeman@ai-lab.fh-furtwangen.de> writes:
- |> :
- |> : Speaking of new.. What was new in Win95? PMT? Plug-n-Play? long file names?
- |> : pseudo 32bit os? nice looking gui? Seems that those are really old features
- |> : of my favorite OS. The bad thing is 95 still doesn't get it right.
- |>
- |> Well one thing about all of those features that are new is that they
- |> finally run in a mainstream OS which runs on Intel (CHEAP AND FAST!)
- |> hardware, and which probably runs more software than any other OS on the
- |> planet...
- |>
- Too bad that none of the above features are new.
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- Hmm.. Intel probably doesn't run more software on the planet. PowerPC
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- would be the winner. With MacOs and NT running the bulk of software out
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- there. Not to mention that the PPC's fast floating point isn't *too* shabby.
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- :) Hey, isn't the chip that Amigas are going to? Add in the thousands
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- of Amiga titles to the PPC early next year. From just about any standpoint
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- a PPC makes more sense than a X86 cisc chipset.
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- Shane
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- |> Reg Martin
-