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From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4
Message-ID: <1991Feb11.141219.4829@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 11 Feb 91 14:12:19 GMT
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In article <1991Feb8.030757.22974@portia.Stanford.EDU>, bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
> 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.

Could you be a bit more specific, please? 

> 
>>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.

Sounds pretty strange. How can it be that 040 NeXT wins Sparcstation 1+
on several benchmarks? 

Have you done any benchmarking on the 040 NeXT versus the fastest
Amigas? 

BTW, if you only mean that the interface seems slow, the reason might be
that you have used a machine with only 8MB memory - that causes
considerable virtual memory swapping. 16MB or more would make an end to
that problem.

As a final statement: Are you trying to convince the people that "040
NeXTs are slow as dogs"? Sounds very funny.

> 
> (isn't ~.advocacy great?)
> 
>>	Jouni Alkio, Helsinki, Finland
> 
> Dave Hopper      |      /// The Amiga:      | The great strength of the total-
>                  | __  ///                  | itarian state is that it forces
> bard@jessica.    | \\\/// The Cybernetic    | those who fear it to imitate it.
>    Stanford.EDU  |  \XX/ Revolution is NOW! |               --Adolph Hitler


			Jouni Alkio, Helsinki, Finland