Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!telxon!davidw From: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Glimpse of a NEXT... Summary: So what Message-ID: <511@telxon.UUCP> Date: 28 Mar 90 13:07:31 GMT References: <1990Mar18.001043.23028@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> <1949@clyde.concordia.ca> <1990Mar19.200738.31312@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <124@next.com> Reply-To: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright) Distribution: comp Organization: TELXON Corporation, Akron OH Lines: 26 In article <124@next.com> Ali_Ozer@NeXT.com (Ali Ozer) writes: >True, it slows down your system some... However you should also >consider that you're effectively executing the PostScript on a >25MHz 68030 system with virtual memory --- how many PostScript printers >have that kind of power? The NeXT printer executes and prints large PostScript A BIG "so what?". That sounds a little like the junky Atari ST laser printer. Basically no memory at all, so it uses the host computers memory. This is really funny, since some of these systems themselves only have 512-1 meg, and at least officially, can't be expanded. Single pages of graphics can be bigger than that. I am willing to bet that MOST people would rather have a more responsive keyboard, and less heavily loaded system than a "fast printer". After using one for a while, I have to agree that the NeXT is nothing more than an overpriced, single-user, multi-tasking system. Basically a more expensive Amiga. The OS is slower than comparable Unix systems, performance in all areas is slower than expected, and trying to run even 3 users drains the system so heavily you would think it was clocked at 4 mhz.... -- Telxon: x4350 | davewt@NCoast.ORG | Programs Plus presents: uunet!telxon!davidw | uunet!hal!ncoast!davewt | CoreWar, CRobots, Empire telxon!tts1!davidw | uunet!cwjcc!ncoast!davewt | DeVo "If ya aint got multitasking, ya aint got anything" oVeD