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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.030757.22974@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 91 03:07:57 GMT
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In article <1991Feb7.151106.4795@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>
>BTW, when you only benchmark a 68030 Amiga with 68030 NeXT you must take
>in to consideration that what NeXT lacks in speed it wins in
>flexibility... (Display Postscript, the programming/user interface).

Flexibility?  Did he say FLEXIBILITY?  The Amiga INVENTED flexibility.

>The 68030 NeXT was too slow to handle all the niceties NeXT has. The
>68040 is not - and the new version of the operation system (2.0) is said
>to speed up the system quite considerably, too.

I've been using an '040 NeXT for about two months now.  The thing's still as
slow as a dog, even when switching/moving windows.  What speed *is* provided
by bogging down the '040 (as Display Postscript will do) is completely lost if
it's networked to cubes (as the one I use is) and in page-flipping on a 100-Meg
hard disk.  The damn thing has taken a full *two minutes* to resize an .eps
pic.  Way to go, Jobs.  Them's some brilliant engineering.

(isn't ~.advocacy great?)

>	Jouni Alkio, Helsinki, Finland

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