Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!uwm.edu!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: 7 Apr 91 21:50:54 GMT References: <10834@uwm.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 37 In-Reply-To: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu's message of 7 Apr 91 21:08:10 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <10834@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes: 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. Hmmm. You might just be coming around. The Amiga interface doesn't need to be any snappier(do need 2.0 ROMs on all machines), but now you might want to add a little more functionality to the machine by adding Adobe Fonts and Display Postscript. This might mean a little more to people than the speed of the GUI. After a certain speed, the speed of the GUI really doens't matter that much. 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. I'm typing on an 8MB NeXT right now, and the performance IS ACCEPTABLE. But being the kind of guy that I am, I want more more more... No, but then again, I never want the system to have to depend on it. I wish the NeXT could say the same. Well, you are running out of computers that don't have virtual memory. In a few years their won't be any left. By the way, all workstations have virtual memory, are they "bad" in your book? -Mike