Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr9.130807.23303@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 9 Apr 91 13:08:07 GMT References: <10834@uwm.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 20 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > After a certain speed, the speed of > the GUI really doens't matter that much. Ah yes, but the NeXT isn't there yet. Particularly for program startup: it's got the X disease, also known as "click and wait". You click on a program then wait several seconds for it to open a window. > Well, you are running out of computers that don't have virtual memory. > In a few years their won't be any left. Sure there will. Nobody is going to be running real-time stuff like MIDI processing on a VM system. DEC has been trying to sell VMS for real-time for a decade, and the best they can do is add a dedicated real-time computer on the bus to do the real-time work. It's got its own RAM and everything, and a non-virtual O/S. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .