Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!convex!swarren From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr03.214412.17783@convex.com> Date: 3 Apr 91 21:44:12 GMT References: <2o7G!rpe1@cs.psu.edu> <14026@helios.TAMU.EDU> Sender: news@convex.com (news access account) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: neptune.convex.com In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >In article <14026@helios.TAMU.EDU> dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes: > Yeah...wait until you try to do some heavy disk activity while playing > a score file on that DSP.... The DSP requires the *CPU* to feed it > the sound data; it can't go get it on its own. > >Moral of the story: don't do heavy disk activity. The NeXT does have >DMA, how heavy does it have to be? ;^) Spoken like a true zealot. ;^) Someone who loves his NeXT so much, no sacrifice is too great. If your application goes out to disk too much, why, throw it away! Obviously there is something wrong with your application! Because, as all NeXT zealots know, the NeXT is PERFECT!!!!!! There could never be a problem with the machine. IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! _. --Steve ._||__ DISCLAIMER: Not flaming the NeXT; just mindless zealots Warren v\ *| -------------------------------------------------------- V {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.com --