Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. In-Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of 7 Apr 91 03:45:35 GMT Message-ID: Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu Organization: Penn State Computer Science References: <3&8Ghkzh1@cs.psu.edu> <12502@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1991Apr7.034535.26282@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 91 20:30:20 GMT Lines: 23 In article <1991Apr7.034535.26282@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: How about $500? As an applications platform, the Amiga 500 is pretty close, since it's not tossing CPU speed away on VM. Really, a stock NeXT is about as responsive as a Mac Classic, which the 500 has beat all hollow. Oh, sure, CPU intensive stuff will be faster on the NeXT. What CPU-intensive stuff do you get with the machine? The Objective C compiler benefited from the 040 upgrade, as did Display Postscript, as did Mathametica, as did just about everything that you can think of. Why do you say the NeXT isn't responsive? It's not that bad. Swapping can make it seem less responsive at times, but that is something $400 will alleviate. A NeXT owner should at 8MB of RAM to his Christmas list -- might only be $200 by then. You don't click and drag the entire window on a Classic, you just move the outline. As for virtual memory, are you saying that you hope the Amiga never gets it? Is it better to just run out of memory? -Mike