Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!gilgalad From: gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NeXT Intro (Was ) Message-ID: <1990Oct19.080037.13261@engin.umich.edu> Date: 19 Oct 90 08:00:37 GMT References: <6813@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Oct17.020736.6223@math.lsa.umich.edu> <6829@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@engin.umich.edu (CAEN Netnews) Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 36 >> 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. >Oh come on. The only slow thing I noticed was program startup. I have no idea >why it takes so long to launch a program, but once it's up it's zippy. Where >Sun drags a window by dragging a crosshatch outline (much like the Amiga) >NeXT manages to drag the whole window in real time. Other actions are similarly >quick. Yeah! I wish that they had that on Intuition! Hmmm... I don't seem to notice too much of a problem with applications starting up (speedwise that is). Are you loading off of the magneto-optical? I'm using a 660, and things are quite snappy. Also, you might want to go up from the piddly 8 megs that comes standard. 16 gives you enough space to keep paging down, and 32 is just plain great. Ohhh, one more thing, NeXT applications are HUGE. Simple applications can run over a meg easily (just like X stuff). >It's as fast as any Sun running X. Ummmm... Sun 4/380? I doubt that 8-) How about RS/6000 Station 730? >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. See ya, Ralph gilgalad@dip.eecs.umich.edu gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu Ralph Seguin | "You mean THE Zaphod Beeblebrox?" 536 South Forest | Apartment 915 | "No. Haven't you heard, I come in six packs!" Ann Arbor, MI 48104 | (313) 662-4805