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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
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Date: 10 Apr 91 16:54:32 GMT
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From article <2802B910.22818@orion.oac.uci.edu>, by nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen):
> NeXT is a pretty nice system.  I don't know why all the Amiga people are
> trying to make having Display Postscript sound like something bad to have.  

It's nice.  But it's a processor hog, and it's useless for many things
that I do every day.  Do you honestly believe your term program NEEDS
to have DP?  What about a spreadsheet?  Your screen blanker?  Your
games?  The list goes on.

> needed.  Now the Amiga people are doing the same thing.  If DP is bad
> why is C= trying to get CompuGraphic Font support in 2.x???

I'm sure that if you thought long and hard enough, your brain cell
could tell you that scaleable fonts and DP have between little and
nothing in common...

> The slow down is not that noticable. In fact, it runs quite fast even when
> I have many windows opened on the screen.  Also the whole window moves, not
> just the outline.  Try to move the windows on the Amiga, when you have
> several windows opened --- it slows down noticeably even on A3000 with 2.x.
> 
> By the way, I have an A3000/25!!!

Not sure what you mean on that last part...  Anyways, you wouldn't
notice the slowdown.  Seriously.  Have you ever run Mach WITHOUT DP?
No.  Why?  You can't.  So how can you say the slowdown isn't that
noticeable.  Compared to what???
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- gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu -	|  IBM's brain is on overload, and Apple
	Gregory Block		|  needs to be potty-trained.  C= may not
Toaster+Amiga=The One True DTV	|  be marketing geniuses, but theyre the
________________________________|  best engineers I've seen...     -Wubba