Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gblock From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <10834@uwm.edu> Date: 7 Apr 91 21:08:10 GMT References: Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 38 Originator: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From article , by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): > 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. And I suppose that's a NeXT phenomenon, huh? You think that other systems don't get faster, with an 040 upgrade, perhaps??? How much snappier does AmigaOS need to get??? We've got the fastest gui I've ever seen. Certainly faster than the Next, and faster than 6.0.5, and the betas I've seen of 7.0. > 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. You don't seem to understand. Any other GUI that I've ever seen is faster than DP on the NeXT 040. It's sluggish. And when you use another gui, and then use yours, it feels sluggish. Like wet Limburger (You know, this is the first time I've ever put thought to spelling that??) cheese. It's not just window dragging, it's EVERYTHING. As a whole. And I suppose spending another 400 bucks on a 4000 dollar system is just a drop in the bucket... Just so the system runs at an acceptable pace. Argh, what logic. > > As for virtual memory, are you saying that you hope the Amiga never > gets it? Is it better to just run out of memory? > No, but then again, I never want the system to have to depend on it. I wish the NeXT could say the same. -- - gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu - | IBM's brain is on overload, and Apple Gregory Block | needs to be potty-trained. C= may not Toaster+Amiga=The One True DTV | be marketing geniuses, but theyre the ________________________________| best engineers I've seen... -Wubba