Travis Martin wrote:
> > I completely agree with Kyle here, sorry Michael.
> >
> >> Why is that not a good analogy? What was on the PC market in 1995? The
> >> conversion to Windoze 95 had just started and most people were using 3.1. The
> >> MOST advanced PC around that time for the consumer was a Pentium 1 at 133MHz.
> >> I think that was a very good choice for an analogy.
>
> I've been trying to follow this thread but I'm confused...
>
> My understanding has always roughly correlated 486 to quadra, power pc to
> pentium; is this not what you are saying?
>
> I don't think you can look at a snapshot in time and say what was on the
> market that day is what made them equivalent; the pentium and the power pc,
> for example, weren't released on the same day. The W95 operating system
> really has nothing to do with the discussion as I understand it, since it
> will run on a 486 or Pentium.
I was trying to equate a 1995 PC with a 1995 Mac. The 8500 came out in 1995.
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