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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT Intro (Was <None>)
Message-ID: <6834@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 19 Oct 90 11:27:27 GMT
References: <6813@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Oct17.020736.6223@math.lsa.umich.edu> <6829@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Oct19.080037.13261@engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <1990Oct19.080037.13261@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
> 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).

Go into Mail and click open a sample. It takes quite a while to load the
voice player. All the program loads are slow. And this was on a standard
NeXTstation with the 100M, and a NeXT cube with a 660. The 8 Megs might not
be enough... reasonable diagnosis. But overall display speed is quite
adequate. It's up to Amiga speeds, where most X systems seem more like an
8-color Mac-II.

> >It's as fast as any Sun running X.

> Ummmm... Sun 4/380?  I doubt that 8-)  How about RS/6000 Station 730?

I haven't seen those, but they're quite a bit more expensive. It's also
slower than the Intergraph with its accelerated graphics.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.