Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!ukma!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: Date: 4 Apr 91 00:30:55 GMT References: <2o7G!rpe1@cs.psu.edu> <14026@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Apr03.214412.17783@convex.com> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: swarren@convex.com's message of 3 Apr 91 21:44:12 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu >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! You can play music and do a lot of disk activity on the NeXT. I'm not sure how much. I compiled GNU Smalltalk and played a song that lasted about a minute, and didn't have any problem. No, the NeXT isn't perfect. I want a faster machine that will do real time 32 bit color. It's just a matter of NeXT having the fewest tradeoffs of any machine on the market. In other words, it's the best deal out there. Amiga zealots know this, that's why they scream foul -- NeXT can't be making any money. -Mike