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From: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT Intro (Was <None>)
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.061756.20248@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 17 Oct 90 06:17:56 GMT
References: <38267@ut-emx.uucp> <38292@ut-emx.uucp> <6813@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Oct17.020736.6223@math.lsa.umich.edu>
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hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:

>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.

>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.

  At a recent meeting, Bud Tribble (NeXT Software Engineer and former Mac
software engineer) stated something along the lines of "I believe that
80-90% of a computer's power should be used to run the user interface.
With a 15 MIPS computer, we still have a few cycles left over to do some
work".

(Whether you agree with him or not is another matter of course)

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