Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!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: <46867@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 8 Apr 91 18:42:16 GMT References: <10834@uwm.edu> <46833@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 35 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >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. Please look up the definition of the word 'acceptable' before you use it again, then. BTW, with an 040 you should be able to pull off real-time animation in a window -- but of course you have the overhead of DP on the NeXT so you couldn't do it on _that_ platform. Damn shame... >How much does the faster GUI improve your productivity? Personally, I >use the Unix shell and Emacs for a lot of my work. I'd say it improves my productivity quite a hell of a lot, actually. I commonly have several windows open, and several screens too. Given the amount of flipping/moving of windows and screens I do it'd be a real pain in the ass if a bunch of CPU was getting eaten up by a slow GUI. When compiling you don't want half of the CPU used in printing out compiler status messages, do you? BTW, since you use the shell and Emacs so much I guess DP is just extra baggage, eh? It'd sure be nice if you could specify what windows were and weren't DP, wouldn't it? Forcing DP on the user was one of NeXT's many blunders. >-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