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- From: psheffield@earthlink.net (Patrick Sheffield)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 08:20:57 GMT
- Organization: Earthlink Network, Inc.
- Message-ID: <1037.6645T153T370@earthlink.net>
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- >Shane Kuntz (crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com) wrote:
- >: In article <Do0Ksy.73J@info.uucp>, mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin)
- >: writes:
- >: |> Shane Kuntz (crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com) wrote:
- >: |> : In article <DnyHG6.GG0@info.uucp>, mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin)
- >: |> : writes:
- >:
- >: With the PPC capable of running NT/Mac and soon Amiga (any others?) why
- >: do you think the pentium would win for quantity?
- >
- >: |> PPC is fine, but it certainly doesn't make more sense "from just about
- >: |> any standpoint". How about from the standpoint of the average home
- >: |> user of today. They'd be kooky to buy a PPC today (if they could even
- >: |> find one). (Unless of course they are an upgrading Mac user)
- >:
- >: Why would a PPC be so hard to find?
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- >Have YOU ever seen one? The only PPC machines I've ever seen are
- >PowerMacs. Pentiums OTOH, are everywhere you look, and are so cheap
- >that they are practically being given away in CrackerJack boxes...
- >
- I have seen IBM PowerPCs (I think it was at CompUSA).
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- Patrick Sheffield
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