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From: mpierce@ewu.UUCP (Mathew Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <1553@ewu.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 91 08:55:45 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.082327.7378@rice.edu> <.v1G&v0*1@cs.psu.edu>
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Organization: Eastern Washington Univ. Cheney WA
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In article <.v1G&v0*1@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> 
> In article <17564@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
> 
>    While a DSP is a nice idea, I think the NeXT would have been far better off
>    with a video accelerator from the start.  There are all kinds of fast and
>    cheap processors out there, the kind of things you find in laser printers,
> 
> Look at the printer benchmarks in comp.benchmarks.  The NeXT
> printer(the NeXT itself) faired quite well.

I think you missed his point.  I and several of the CS faculty persons here at
EWU agree with Dave Haney's point about a video accelerator.  Just think how
fast the display would be if it had it's own graphic coprocessor instead of 
using the CPU.  Since the DSP is very under utilized (not used here @ EWU) we
could have benefitted from a graphic coprocessor of some sort.  The nExt is an
interesting machine, its just that it is very....eccentric.

[bunch of stuff deleted]

> Of course you do, the NeXT is the hottest thing to hit the market
> since the original Amiga.  There's a new bad boy on the block, move
> over Amiga.
> 
> -Mike

I think you forgot your smiley face, so here's a spare :^)

-Matt Pierce