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From: kean@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Kean Stump)
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Subject: Re: Subjective Speed
Summary: 0.9 Much Better
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Date: 20 Apr 89 18:08:24 GMT
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In article <1921@csuna.csun.edu> abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott Neugroschl) writes:
>My SUBJECTIVE opinion is that the NeXT "feels" slow.  You click on a program,
>and the system goes away for what seems to be a long time.  There is no
>indication (cursor change) of "hang on, I'm working on it".  The icon shows
>up on the bottom, and then it takes a good 10-15 seconds for the app to launch.
>
>Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl

On Tuesday, a cube running 0.9 was shown to the campus NeXT user's group.  I
got a chance to play with it a little, and these are some of my impressions:

1) 0.9 is faster than 0.8.  The cube we saw was running 0.9 off of the optical,
   and it was subjectively faster than 0.8 on a hard drive.  0.9 fixes a 
   slight problem with the disk caching software (well, twice as many cache 
   reads as necessary 8) ) that speeds up the disk access a little less than 2X
   the 0.8 speed.  0.9 also fixes a problem in the interrupt handler (?) that 
   increases the response time to mouseclicks by a lot.  I can't wait for my
   copy to arrive.

2) When you click on an icon to launch an application, the icon stays 
   highlighted until the application is fully launched, and the mouse cursor
   changes to a spinning disk while the cube is doing something, so you know
   that it is doing something, and not just hung.

3) The volume and brightness keys repeat when you hold them down.  Yeah!

4) The filesystem is not the same as 0.8, just like the release notes warned.

'Till later.....kean

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Oregon State University                          Kean Stump
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