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Subject: Re: Re: Mac vs. Amiga
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Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 11:46:45 EST
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In article <1105@husc6.UUCP> hadeishi@husc4.UUCP (mitsuharu hadeishi) writes:
>
>	One thing I have noticed is that the Amiga windowing
>system is lightning fast, in comparison with something like
>Suntools on the Sun.  I mean Suntools practically rolled over
>and died while I was running a simple fractal generation program.
>I mean this is on a SUN/3, which has "real" hard disk drives,
>costs $30K, and two 68020s running at 14 Mhz to bench in at about
>1 1/2 times faster than a VAX 11/785.  Just trying to resize a
>window under Suntools became a monumental task, and the whole
>system hung when I tried to rewind the tape drive (it came back
>when the tape drive finished rewinding, and then proceeded to
>try to take care of all the mouse clicks and stuff I had been
>doing while it was dead, all at once.  Ugh.)

I know this isn't comp.sys.suns so I'll limit my comments on this;

	The tape drive problem you describe is dependant on the
	tape controller card in use (I think you have the SCSI),
	but is not really the fault of the computer per se.
	Also, "two 68020's"?  Isn't there only just one, on the
	CPU card?  Reply by mail if you want to.

I do agree that there is a problem with window command queueing under
Suntools.  Does the Amiga have any problems in this area?  Do you
get instant response to the mouse?  In other words, does the mouse
have the highest priority?

As for fractal generation on a Sun 3, did you use SunView? If you did
then that was probably a big % of your problem.

Robert Allen,
robert@spam.istc.sri.com