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#Pentiums and Macs

    21-Jan-95 00:45:37
Sb: #Pentiums and Macs
Fm: Steven D. Kapplin 70055,1021
To: Robert Comer 72446,656
Bob, Interestingly there are now a couple of shell programs for the Macs, at least two shareware and 1 commercial. All three implement a unix style shell. I've only played with the two shareware shells and neither are up to WSHell on the Amiga, but at least the concept of a CLI on a Mac is alive, barely. I'm using a Mac PowerPC 6100 which seems pretty potent and certainly as fast as my 3000T/040 was. With "native" software it screams past an '040, especially graphics. Now, if the Mac could only multi-task like the Amiga …. Of course neither can windows 3.1. I've used OS/2 2.1 and it would surely be interesting to see it ported to the PPC. Hope they make a Mac PPC version.