Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!jarthur!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!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: 8 Apr 91 14:47:53 GMT References: <10834@uwm.edu> <46833@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu's message of 8 Apr 91 12:43:22 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <46833@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes: So, you've got an 040 box (which you keep reminding us is 15MIPS (meaningless indications of processor speed)) that still can't make it's GUI fast enough for you. You say acceptable, but you want more? I said that they can't make a computer fast enough. I want real-time animation in a window, etc. Some applications aren't going to be improved that much by making a computer twice as fast. Some things are not yet attainable because computers aren't fast enough yet. Try to remember this NeXT time so that I don't have to explain it again. Sheesh. I'm typing _this_ on a 7.14Mhz 68000 Amiga and the GUI is faster than the 040 NeXT (from personal experience). The only faster GUI I've seen (and I've seen a few) was the _same_ one running on an 030 Amiga. Remember, the 040 is nearly 3 times as fast as the 030, and approximately 20 times as fast as the 68000. > -Mike How much does the faster GUI improve your productivity? Personally, I use the Unix shell and Emacs for a lot of my work. -Mike