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To: Scumbria who wrote (78553)	4/12/1999 10:39:00 AM
From: Brad Bolen	Respond to of 186894

RE; Mac Power PC performance was crippled for years because large portions of the kernel were emulating 68000 code. If Apple had a full performance OS on PPC, the product probably would have done a lot better. They lost the raw performance advantage PPC offered them. Yes...sigh....yes. But my point is that it is debatable that the length of time it took Apple to get the kernel completely out of emulation (are they even 100% PPC now?) had little or nothing to do with AAPL under-performance. Its like you blaming DELL for not taking advantage of a processor running at the top speed the bus is capable of handling. 'Boy, if we had that 1 ghz processor today we would really kick the competition's buns ... da losers.' The fact is that 99% of end-users know nothing of what code the MacOS is running, emulated or otherwise, and that the MAC has offered quite a competitive product, regardless. 'crippled'? B.