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From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.124248.6059@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 20 Apr 91 12:42:48 GMT
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In article <11146@uwm.edu>, gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:
> From article <30178@cs.yale.edu>, by pharr-matthew@cs.yale.edu (Matthew Pharr):
>> As for this thread on the speed of DP, it seems to me that if everyone could
>> calm down and see that although DP is not made for heavy duty animation,
>> it is still a good system, and--IF THERE ARE THIS MANY NeXT PEOPLE OUT THERE
>> WHO LIKE IT, THEN-JUST MAYBE-IT CAN'T BE AS AWFUL AS ALL THE AMIGA FOLKS ARE
>> SAYING...
>> 
>> matt
> 
> I'm not saying it's awful.  But if you can get a 10% increase on an
> 040 next by not running it, an EXTRA 2.5 MIPS FOR APPLICATION USE,
> wouldn't you like it?  I mean 2.5 mips is almost an extra 68030...
> 
> greg

Well, first of all, 10% of 15 MIPS is not 2.5 MIPS... :-)

And then: The point is functionality versus speed. And I think your
"EXTRA 2.5 MIPS FOR APPLICATION USE" is quite a bit misleading. The DP
doesn't take _any_ speed when the machine doesn't draw anything! And most of
the machine doesn't draw much - at least not more than a few lines or
text (I doubt that takes 10% of performance compared to some other as
advanced windowing system with Unix). 

I somehow get the impression that some people here try to find _every_
little "bad point" of NeXT and brag about it continuously.

                           Jouni