Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!caen!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gblock From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: <10956@uwm.edu> Date: 11 Apr 91 19:13:21 GMT References: Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Distribution: na Lines: 26 Originator: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From article , by kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard): > You can bring up a NeXT machine in single user mode vs. multi-user mode. > In single user mode you don't load the window manager and you have a > Unix box with just a plain old command line. Exactly how do you do this? It's not like I have access to cabling or anything. It's not as if I could disconnect it from the network. And if you do this, maybe the fact that it's expecting display postscript and the routines for using non-display postscript systems just aren't as advanced... Maybe they're close tothe same speed. Do a benchmark while using the term program with the exact same load, say a stream of continuous characters ata certain baudrate being spewn to the screen without DP, and then with DP. Post the difference, and I'll believe it. Until then, you have proved little. > > You obviously know nothing about a NeXT except what you have read and that > isn't much. And you're obviously underinformed, and lack proof in any of the statements you make here. Do the above and I'll believe you. -- - 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