--- Ray Fryer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Many programs do not take advantage of altivec yet.
> >
> >But, I thought MacOS X used a G4 better than a G3?
>
>
> >That I imagine is true but I don't seem to have a
> great interest in
> >installing OS X.
> I actually don't really know that much about OS X.
> The higher bus
> speed of the new G4's , I would think, will help
> too. I have the
> CD to install it but somehow don't want to bother
> with it yet. The
> whole thing definitely goes beyond the simplicity of
> the Mac
> operating system. I've played around with it at the
> store where it is
> installed. It's kind of strange how a classic
> application all of
> sudden opens in the OS 9 environment. It will take
> some time getting
> used to; not to mention the long road of migrating
> Mac users to OS X.
> I don't imagine many will be real eager. Some people
> still like to
> use DOS. I'm waiting till they iron out some mor
> bugs.
Yup, I know some people who still use nothing but
WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS on an old XT and will never
ever upgrade no matter what. A couple of times I
even scrounged up another XT for them when theirs
finally died after 15 years. (Fortunately I started
out in 1983 on the PCjr/PC/PC-XT boxes.)
=====
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which is fruitful to an excess here, be so very barren in
the rest of the planets?" Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686
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