Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!know!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!udel!mmdf From: S36666WB%ETSUACAD.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu (Brian Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NeXT Intro (Was ) Message-ID: <34029@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 19 Oct 90 23:43:16 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 62 On 19 Oct 90 08:00:37 GMT you said: >>> 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. Funny, the NeXT that I have toyed with was plain slow all the way around. The mouse pointer jumps, the windows jump while dragging them, the icons have no names so you have no idea what you are running. Great B/W display a little fuzzy though. Applictions started slow. Once you had the program started I guess it was pretty usable, but the wait was incredible. >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, Oh come now, 32 megs? What a ridiculous amount of memory. It takes 32 megs for a NeXT to run quickly? I have 4 megs on my 3000 and it's quite snappy. Who has the money to buy 32 megs of memory? Kinda reminds me of the 500 syndrome to an extreme. It comes with 512k but to do anything with a 500 you have to get the 512k expansion to 1 meg. When you start talking 16 megs and 32 megs, you have already priced it out of the home market by leaps and bounds. That just seems to be a total waste of memory. When I first read this I thought it was a joke. But you are quite serious. >one more thing, NeXT applications are HUGE. Simple applications >can run over a meg easily (just like X stuff). I won't say anything about this. SIMPLE applications on the Amiga are around 10k. >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 When a system NEEDS 16 megs to run properly there is something QUITE wrong if that system is to be considered any kind of home computer. I just wonder what market this system is trying to hit. I mean the Amiga can run and multitask to some degree on 1 meg. On 4 megs it's just about right. You put 8 on there and you'd run out of chip ram before you'd run out of fast. 16 megs and who knows what you could do. Put 32 megs on it and ??? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ======================================================================= ||NeXT- (nekst) N. The only PC to have sold less than 10,000 units and || || not be considered a flop. || ||------------------------------------------/ /------------------------|| ||---Brian Wright | / / || ||---s36666wb@etsuacad.etsu.edu | \ \/ / Only Amiga || ||---Commercial Artist and Amigaphile| \/\/ Makes It Possible!! || =======================================================================