Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <46833@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 8 Apr 91 12:43:22 GMT References: <10834@uwm.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 45 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > 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 ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ Screw Adobe. Compugraphic fonts are in our future... As for DP, I can get that functionality when I want it through PD utilities such as Post and many of the commercial DTP packages available for the Amiga. When I don't need it (FrEx, running a term.) I don't have to wait on it. I'm not saying that DP is a "Bad Thing." I just think they shouldn't have centered the GUI on it so much. It would have made more sense to have a window-type that was DP. You can get device-independant graphics with out it. > people than the speed of the GUI. After a certain speed, the speed of ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > the GUI really doens't matter that much. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > 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... ^^^^ 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? 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 Greg -- Greg Harp |"How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two |lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu|running over the same ground. What have we found? s609@cs.utexas.edu |The same old fears. Wish you were here." - Pink Floyd