Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: <1991Apr18.113419.16762@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <2361@pdxgate.UUCP> <11053@uwm.edu> Distribution: comp Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 11:34:19 GMT In article kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard) writes: > Face the facts, on large screens, windowing sucks up CPU cycles no matter > what platform. Also Unix has overhead that slows the CPU. So compare an > Amiga or Mac running Unix and a windowing system and see what happens, > slower still. That's why people put extra CPUs in to speed up windowing. Well, everyone except NeXT... their extra CPU is for, um, well they'll think of something... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .