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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
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In article <.-2G2vju1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
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>Why exactly is Display Postscript slow?  I've heard quite a few Amiga
>droid say that it is, but do any of them have an answer to my
>question, or did another Amiga droid tell you that it is slow?
>
>-Mike


I've been following this thread and I have relied on the 'Amiga droid'
concensus and its not that DP itself is slow, its that DP is the most
wasteful and useless of the NeXT's CPU ti killers.  There has been a lot
said about the NeXT in general being slow from people who have used NeXT.
(You haven't even seen the 3000 under 2.0 have you Mike?)  I remember one
post in particular that said something about where a screen refresh was timed
at over 2 min.  I think they were networking or something but it still seemed 
incredibly slow for an 040 machin ...to the person who wrote in.  DP just
seemed to sybolize what is wrong with NeXT.  Its costly, mostly glitz, its
not very practical, and doesn't seem to be grounded in the reality of the
marketplace as Amiga had to become.  I would imagine that people, including
myself, pick on DP because it is the easiest aspect to pick on.  If we can
win the DP argement, the entire arguement with NeXT falls into place.

PS I went over and played around on my friends 3000 again today.  Is that
   a dream machine or what?
   
   His machine was only $2500 Mike with the vivid color 1950 monitor and
   a 50 (? or 40) meg hard drive.  There is a slot for the 040 chip and he
   will be able to add Unix, 386/VGA, or AmaxIII with 0.7 and color on down
   the road.  I've also read that 200 meg drives will soon be available
   for around $300.

   You seen the lemmings game... talk about fun. 




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