Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: Date: 12 Apr 91 14:18:34 GMT References: <10866@uwm.edu> <25dG$=hk1@cs.psu.edu> <2802B127.21121@orion.oac.uci.edu> <1991Apr12.045200.25169@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 35 In-Reply-To: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu's message of 12 Apr 91 04:52:00 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1991Apr12.045200.25169@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes: Is the next more similar to a UNIX workstation, an IBM, a Mac, or an Amiga? Does it multitask/singletask? Does it use command line interfaces? You can use a Unix CLI or a Mac like GUI. If it is anything like how the Mac works, I wouldn't be surprised if it is painfully slow. For example, to show how slow a Mac can be, lod up your favorite Mac program. Then say, "Oh, I forgot to format my disk." Then exit the Mac program, format the disk, re-enter the application, etc. I thought that you whenever you inserted a disk on the Mac that wasn't formatted, the Mac would prompt you to format the disk. Are you using the Mac on an Appletalk network? That is the reason it takes so long to load a program. Apple ships Appletalk with their machines for free so people use it. IBM on the other hand doesn't ship anything so you buy must buy something, and that something is Token Ring. Ask your school to put Ethernet cards in the Mac and you will see a big improvement. Or try to load an application and then decide you want to cancel, but can't until it is already loaded....more waiting. Or try to connect a Mac to an Amiga running AMAX, and use the same Z-modem terminals on each system (I just did this today with ZTerm.85). Notice what happens when you open a DA...stops sending. Try selecting a menu option, or even the title bar of a window...stops sending. And when Moire, the screen blanker comes on, watch the CPS steadily drop down and down... I don't car as much about how long it takes to crunch numbers...I can walk away and read a book. But not between disk loads and screen updates!!! -Mike