Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. In-Reply-To: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu's message of 13 Apr 91 15:50:08 GMT Message-ID: <$8cG!_ko1@cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu Organization: Penn State Computer Science References: <2802B127.21121@orion.oac.uci.edu> <1991Apr12.045200.25169@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991Apr13.155008.28917@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 91 18:51:44 GMT Lines: 54 In article <1991Apr13.155008.28917@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes: Okay, so I assume you know a little or a lot about the Next because you answered my question(s). Does it multitask or single task? Is it more like a Mac, an IBM, or an Amiga and/or HP UNIX workstation? I want to know! I hear that System 7 on the Mac is supposed to multitask....I doubt it though. The NeXT, and all Unix machines, have preemptive multitasking like the Amiga does. The Mac has cooperative multitasking which is a little different. I'm not going to debate which is better. In many cases they both work fine. Let me explain. I have one internal and one external drive. When I was using just one drive (I borrowed my roomate's drive recently), I would want to format a disk. I insert it in the drive. After about 5 seconds, it decides it is a bad disk, and asks me to insert my system disk. It then opens a prompt to format the disk...but my SYSTEM disk is in the drive! ALL attempts at ejecting, reinserting the bad disk, and even formatting the system disk have been utter failures. And it takes a long time. It is impossibly painful to use a mac without a huge hard drive. Apple ships all of their new machines with 40MB hard drives. They know that it is painful. Also, when using one floppy, try inserting a new disk and opening a window for that disk. Then eject it and insert another new disk. Then, without ejecting any disks, try to move the first window. A prompt comes up asking you to insert a disk. WHY? The Mac can't even move a window without a disk swap? I only have a 40 meg hard drive, and only 10 megs is go8ing for the Mac, which I already think is too much. I feel bad that I have to share my hard drive like this, but alas... The Mac is probably saving the window state and the position of the window for the floppy, so it needs the floppy inserted to save this information. > >Are you using the Mac on an Appletalk network? That is the reason it No, I am not using it on a network. I do however have two of them right here in my dorm room (along with two Amigas). I have found the Mac to be quite fast when loading programs from a hard drive. And all this talk about memory protection....just use a RAD drive (I know you all have it). Or even better, run WB 2.0. It GURUS less and kills tasks instead. Or get SetTask, which lets you kill or freeze tasks! What is a RAD drive? And you can only run WB 2.0 on the A3000. -Mike