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From: jmarvin@oracle.oracle.com (John W. Marvin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: (Commodore read this !!!)  A few enhancements to the Amiga 3000
Message-ID: <1990Aug9.175622.18888@oracle.com>
Date: 9 Aug 90 17:56:22 GMT
References: <1248@winnie.fit.edu> <1280@gandalf.littlei.UUCP>
Reply-To: jmarvin@oracle.com (John W. Marvin)
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In article <1280@gandalf.littlei.UUCP> griff@anvil.intel.com (Richard Griffith) writes:
>In article <1248@winnie.fit.edu>, rcs91900@zach.fit.edu ( Charles
>Stockman /ADVISOR-Clutterham) writes:
>> From: rcs91900@zach.fit.edu ( Charles Stockman /ADVISOR-Clutterham)
>> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
>> Subject: (Commodore read this !!!)  A few enhancements to the Amiga 3000
>
><* brevity time... *>
>
>> 5) POSTSCRIPT DISPLAY !!!
>BLEAH! unless you're talking about a previewer for printing you sure as *ell
>don't want it as a standard screen!  I've worked with the Next system - It's
>nice - it's "clean and trendy" but SLOOOOOOOW! you want interactive
>graphics? you aren't gonna get it on the Next or any postscript display 
>system, the technology just isn't fast enough to permit interpeted display
>systems.   Try opening several windows, and moving them as fast as you can...
>You'll see what I mean.
>
>
>:Richard E. Griffith, "griff" : iNTEL, Hillsboro Ore.
>:griff@anvil.hf.intel.com
>:SCA!: Cyrus Hammerhand, Household of the Golden Wolf, Dragons' Mist, An Tir 
>:These are MY opinions, if iNTEL wanted them, They'd pay for `em!

1. Display postscript works fine on a SparcStation running xnews.
2. Next is slow because it only has an  '030 doing all the work,
   it has a slow disk, and it swaps like a madman.
3. You work for Intel.

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