Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: <47471@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 19 Apr 91 14:03:30 GMT References: <11145@uwm.edu> <91dGsess1@cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Distribution: comp Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 33 In article <91dGsess1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >NeXTStep doesn't feel sluggish. At least because of the CPU. I thought you said you were a NeXT developer... The NeXTStep _I_ saw and used (YES, version 2.0 on an 040 box) _was_ sluggish. Sure you have a NeXT there? ;-) Certainly if you're not doing anything except playing with the GUI it's bearable. If you start doing _anything_ it slows down to much slower than any other Unix box it's supposed to be comparable to. For example, the SPARC 1+ feels at least twice as fast. The SPARC 1 (more equal in CPU power) feels about 1.5 times as fast. BTW, my comparison is based on machines with 8MB of RAM in each case. Each of them swapped some, but the NeXT swapped a great deal more than the Suns. They were all running similar programs in a similar configuration. Here's a project: Run some of those little graphic demos that come with the NeXT (at least the demo version at our microcenter). Now, make sure you're not running anything else and you're only running one at a time so that you're not swapping like crazy. NOW, compare them to similar demos that came out in early '86 on the Amiga. The NeXT can't draw triangles (or whatever the particular demo is) as fast as a 68K with a blitter. NOW try and tell me DP isn't sluggish. I've seen X demos get a lot better response. Greg -- Greg Harp |"How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two |lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu|running over the same ground. What have we found? s609@cs.utexas.edu |The same old fears. Wish you were here." - Pink Floyd