Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!peter
From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface) (calibration)
Message-ID: <828@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 88 20:03:31 GMT
References: <6895@drutx.ATT.COM> <13650004@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Organization: Public Access - Houston, Tx
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In article ... dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) writes:
> Peter da Silva writes:
> >>...and it succeeds in making a 68020 feel like it's as slow as an 8088.
> Hmmm, I'm using a Mac II now and it does not feel that way to me or any of 
> the other engineers in my lab who own Mac II's.

Perhaps I'm misled by my expectations of how quickly a 68020 can respond
to real-time events. It certainly doesn't feel any faster than Microsoft
Windows when it comes to general user-interface stuff (yes, it's faster
so long as you're sticking within a single application). If Microsoft can
do such a good job on a crummy 8088, surely Apple can do better on a 68020.

> *WoW* a whole second to 1/2 a second?? Gee I better go sell my mac and buy an
> amiga! :) Now if only their was some software for it! ;) uh oh this could 
> start a religious war! It is hard for me to tell if it is even a full second
> for my II to context switch between typing in this window in NCSA telnet and
> say double clicking on a folder on the desktop. Sounds like another case of
> nanosecond madness to me. 

I don't know what shape you're in, but like most people I have about a .2
second minimal reaction time. I can sequence events even faster than that
for a reflex arc. A whole second is really quite a long time. Imagine how
fast you'd type if the computer could only accept one character a second.

> Yes but then we were not discussing the Amiga, which still seems no closer to
> having any significant installed base, we are discussing the Macintosh.

(checks header of article) Hmmm... comp.windows.misc. This place is for
comparison of windowing systems on many machines, right?

And a 600,000 installed base isn't too bad, when you consider that it was
150,000 less than a year ago. And even that 150,000 wasn't too bad for a
product sold with no advertising. 
-- 
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