Xref: utzoo comp.sys.next:5620 comp.sys.mac:51570 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!philmtl!altitude.CAM.ORG!pascal From: pascal@altitude.CAM.ORG (Pascal Gosselin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: NeXT Review;Quite a machine, but not a Mac Message-ID: <1990Mar28.044414.16084@altitude.CAM.ORG> Date: 28 Mar 90 04:44:14 GMT References: <404@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <9942@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <6329@blake.acs.washington.edu> <9958@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <419@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <33411@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <1990Mar27.070232.8653@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: None Lines: 34 lih@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih) writes: >I saw the Mac IIfx running A/UX 2.0 just last week a day after its >announcement and got to sit in front of one for about a half hour and >played with it. When running MacX (with 1 session and the Motif >Window Manager) and two Mac OS programs (Swivel 3D, and another), it >was kind of sluggish. The X implementation (1.07) was slow, and I >found XNeXT to be much quicker. Many times, it would take a few >seconds for a menu to pop up on the root window. Of course, the NeXT >does not have the color that the Mac does. >I did not get to see the Mac IIfx running plain MacOS, but the A/UX >2.0 implementation seems to be much better than the old A/UX, but >performance was not as quick as I thought it would be... MacX does not give you a true feeling of the IIfx's power. You see, MacX running under AU/X (that is, ROOTLESS mode where X is running within MultiFinder windows with Multifinder running as an AU/X 2.0 process) will always be a bit slower than the dedicated X screen mode (ROOTED). The version of MacX that you saw was VERY EARLY BETA.... The Apple guy doing our demo told us that the next Beta release is 10times faster in Rootless mode! Please do not confuse the Multifinder process and AU/X programs. The ROOTED mode, I can assure you, is certainly faster than Display Postscript on a Next... Especially with the 8.24GC board, with it's off-screen drawing capabilites and 30Mhz Heater! -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Pascal Gosselin | Internet: pascal@altitude.CAM.ORG | | Computer Connection Inc. | (514) 674-1514 CIS: 72757,1570 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+