Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX in PCW Message-ID: <1991Jul1.022947.28934@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Date: 1 Jul 91 02:29:47 GMT References: <1991Jun28.185652.1@cc.helsinki.fi> <1991Jun30.015457.17258@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> <1991Jun30.133047.1@cc.helsinki.fi> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 27 In article <1991Jun30.133047.1@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes: > Oh, well. I didn't mean it this way. I just referred to the old flamewar > here (where many people were complaining about the NeXTstep's > "sluggishness" when they compared the NeXT to A3000UX). You would have noticed I never made that claim. X/NeWS/NeXTstep/etc are all resource hogs, though NeWS and (to a lesser extent) NeXTstep have some potential to fix this, by putting more in a dedicated server. > the GENERAL [NeXT] user interface operation (i.e. without many big > apps running simultaneously) is as responsive as in just about any other > GUI I've ever tried... It's about par for modern UNIX GUIs. Some of the older, efficient, and unsexy ones were a lot better. > Well, the writer stated that he could buy a NeXTstation with 400MB hard > disk and some extra goodies (extented memory and co-Xist) for about the > same price than an A3000UX with 200MB hard disk and 8MB memory and no > bundled apps (except monochrome X). I suspect he was comparing NeXT educational prices to Amiga list. The NeXT educational deal is pretty impressive, but that's hardly a fair basis for a comparison. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"