Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!hyc From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NeXT Intro (Was ) Message-ID: <1990Oct17.020736.6223@math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 17 Oct 90 02:07:36 GMT References: <38267@ut-emx.uucp> <38292@ut-emx.uucp> <6813@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor Lines: 26 In article <6813@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >In article <38292@ut-emx.uucp> amiga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul) writes: >> The one thing I despise the most is to try to solve a speed problem by >> throwing a faster processor at it. This is the fix for slow windows >> operation on an I**. It is now the fix for the NeXT and its slow display! >What slow display? It's at least as fast as any equivalent workstation. I have to agree with the original poster. The Cube with system 1.0 seemed to me about as slow as a Sun 3/50 running SunView. I find that kind of performance pretty hard to accept, since the NeXT is clocked at twice the speed of a 3/50, and the processor itself should be so much faster at a given clock rate. When I first heard about the NeXT cube, I thought to myself, "wow, this is gonna be one Hot machine! 25 MHz 68030, 68882, DSP, 12 channel DMA! Cool!" The reality left me completely underwhelmed. Reading the propaganda for the new NeXTStations, I found myself thinking, "wow, this sounds really hot!" But, I believe I have to have faith that Steve Jobs will once again take wonderful hardware and mire it down in terrible software. He's been doing it since the days of the Apple III and Lisa; I'm sure he will continue. -- -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan one million data bits stored on a chip, one million bits per chip if one of those data bits happens to flip, one million data bits stored on the chip...