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In article <[log in to unmask]>,
   [log in to unmask] (Kestrel) wrote:
>On Sat, 29 Jun 1996 09:57:47 -0700, Ssquire <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>>Think the Intel Chip is any better then why is it that most
>>> Pentium Chips aren't RISC like ALL POWERPC Chips. You say the macs are
>>> slow well that's kinda of obviuos seeing that the PPC 601 chip was
>>> designed to compete against 386 and 486 chips, which I might add blow
away
>>> 486 chips(in my opinion). Think the PC is hot, then why the hell do
many
>>> graphic artists, news publishers, movie people, special effects, etc.
use
>>> a MAC. Yall just don't know.
>>
>>
>>Hey asshole, have you heard of MMX?  MMX is Intels new MultiMedia
Extentions due late this year.  They will
>>make intel machines perform multimedia task up to a HUNDRED TIMES faster.
>
>Sorry Dude - Per ComputerWorld (Roughly the 2nd Week of February),
>Microsoft's lawyers contacted Intel and demanded that all development
>work on those features be placed "on the shelf".  It seems Microsoft
>is spending the big $$$ to include those features in a future release
>(Windows NT 4.0 ?) of their premier OS......
>
>Microsoft did not want Intel to beat them to market with hardware
>features they (MS) intended to write themselves.  The obvious
>trade-off is speed, but by imbedding these features into the OS, every
>machine running the said OS could then conceivably benefit from the
>features, regardless of the hardware configurations.....
>
 
Sorry, dude - They _may_ have demanded it, but...
Thats old news, anyway(and from ComputerWorld, to boot!)
 
>
>CRAPples SUCK!!!
>
>Kestrel
 
Terry
 
 
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