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- From: jstc_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu (j. collins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.062654.15685@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 06:26:54 GMT
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- In <1992Nov19.005422.15975@ryn.mro4.dec.com> akhiani@ricks.enet.dec.com (Homayoon Akhiani) writes:
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- >In article <trimble.722112979@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu>, trimble@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble) writes:
- >|>Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- >|>From: trimble@ph-meter.beckman.uiuc.edu (Chris Trimble)
- >|>Subject: Re: Farewell to the Mac? (not flame)
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- >The brings up a good point, POWER PC is a complete new architecture. That means
- >all my current software is junk! because they will not run on PowerPC.
- >Most likely, Apple will have something like SoftPC to run the old 68xxx software
- >on PowerPC. But this will be slow. Imagine running MSwindows with SoftPC
- >on Quadra.
-
- actually this is sort of right. They will be using software emulation for
- the mac on the powerpc, but what I have read has suggested that this
- implemenation will actually run mac software faster than current mac's.
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-
- >look, PowerPC is great, but do you really can use the extra power?
- >can you afford to buy it? can you get the software you need to run on it?
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- Yes I can use the extra power, the suggested prices are in line with the
- current mac prices, and I will have the current base of mac software to
- choose from to begin with, and I am sure that within two years of its release
- that the powerpc will begin to have a large software base on it's own.
-
- >look at the PC, intel will create faster and faster x86 chips, no matter what.
- >IBM and the rest on clones will produce faster and faster x86 PC
- >Motorola will create faster and faster 68xxx and Apple will make faster Mac II
- >and Quadra's.
-
- actually apple will probably stop using the 68xxx series within three years
- (long estimate) due to the coming powerpc's
-
- >The major factor in Personal Computer world are:
- > 1st: cheap software
- > 2nd: cheap hardware
-
- Try a major factor, not the major factor
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- >Homayoon Akhiani "Turning Ideas into ... Reality"
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- >Email: akhiani@ricks.enet.dec.com "The words are mine, and not my employer"
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- -justin m. collins <jstc_ss@troi.cc.rochester.edu>
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