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Re: Future (post E 2.0) idea





On Wed, 17 Apr 1996, William Byrd wrote:

> >It now appears that Apple will port MAC OS 8.x to be functional on 68040
> >Macintoshes (Its being written native in RISC code for the PPCP).  Not only
> >will that resolve the but deal with the multitasking and memory problems.
> >
> Please tell me where this info comes from. Last I heard (MACWEEK about
> 2 weeks ago) apple had no plans on making copland for the 68040
> architecture, and not only would it not run on 68040's, but not on
> machines that had been upgraded via a daughtercard to PPC, only true
> PPC machines.
> 
> Bill/wcb4@upx.net
> 
> 

Bill is right, at least for now.  About 2 weeks ago, I'm still reading 
about people complaining about Copland not suppot PPC upgrade cards.  But 
of course, there's no guarentee this won't change. I cannot, however, see 
why they would port Copland to 040 chips and not force people to buy PPC 
MACs.

I was reading a 12 month old magazine the other day, claiming they might 
sell a version of Windows 95 specifically for Pentiums.  Eight months 
later, do people realize that Windows 95 does runs much faster on a 
Pentium than 486?  As far as I know, a Pentium running twice as fast as a 
486 in DOS/Win 3.1 runs about three times as fast when in Win 95.

Rick
rick.ho@utoronto.ca



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