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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: FACTS ABOUT WB2.0 (Was: Re:WB2.0 for non-A3000)
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Date: 2 Mar 91 00:05:36 GMT
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In article <1991Mar1.120528.2418@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

   > >Makes even the base NeXT educational price look sick.
   > 	If you are willing to settle for such a limited amount of power.

   Well, I have a *smaller* machine than this (16 MHz 80386 with Hercules and
   only 4M on the motherboard) and it's more of a usable UNIX box than a base NeXT
   simply because there's less disk/CPU spent on the interface.

Are Amiga users feeling a little threatened by the Next?  This is the
second time you've made a negative comment about the Next.  Have you
used the new 68040 Nexts?

How much of the CPU is used by the interface when you aren't dragging
a window around on the screen?  Continuously dragging a window back
and for acrossed the screen would impact performance, but it's not
something that most users are going to do.

As for the 386 vs. the 040, the 040 is at at least 4 times faster(at
the same clock speed) doing integer operations than the 386, and since
the 386 doesn't have a FPU, it definitely beats the 386 doing
floating-point.

To speed up the base NeXTstation, spend $400 and get 8 more megs of
RAM.  This will reduce the amount of swapping.

-Mike

BTW: I'm typing on an 8MB system right now, and I'm loving it.