Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!widener!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!triton.unm.edu!nwickham From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr09.064711.29002@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 9 Apr 91 06:47:11 GMT References: <1991Apr8.222503.23643@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <5*1G-jlk1@cs.psu.edu> Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 36 In article <5*1G-jlk1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > > >The advantages of Display Postscript outweigh the disadvantages in the >reduction in speed(IMHO). A better WYSIWYG will benefit DTP more than >the speed. Adobe Illustrator, for example, won't need a preview mode >on the NeXT as it does on the Mac. Serious animation is the only >thing that is hindered by DP, but people who do serious animation can >probably afford to spend $4000 on the i860, or better yet, a SGI. The >A3000 does have a nice niche market with the Toaster, but I'm not a >cable TV company. > >-Mike No, it won't just be animation that will be competing for CPU time. Any time you multitask, run things in the background, or do anything demanding on the system you are going to be slowed down by Display Postscript. I am a structural engineer. What advantage will DP be to me? If I want to run any of those structural programs that take hours to run and want to work on something else in the meantime, I will be slowed down by DP. I don't want it. I'd never have any use for. It is stupid and frivolous. It was a stupid looking gleam in Steve Jobs' eye. Giving you programs like Adobe Illustrator, what in the hell else is DP good for? ...besides making grandma go "wow"? Really Micheal... you stretch things too far and it starts to get boring. NCW