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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
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Subject: Re: Subjective Speed
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Date: 20 Apr 89 21:53:07 GMT
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In article <1921@csuna.csun.edu> abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu 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".  ...

Several points:
- 0.8 is not performance tuned. In 0.8 the idea was to
  get a working, stable system out to various hands to start development
  and get back comments/bug reports. 0.9 fixes some of the bugs, includes
  almost all of the final functionality, incorporating a lot of the 
  comments we got back for 0.8. 1.0 will concentrate on performance and
  fixing bugs.
- 0.9 does provide feedback on app-launch; icons light up until
  the app is running. The icons in the dock also have a visual indication 
  (three-dots) indicating whether they're running or not. Also a lot of the
  apps themselves make use of the "busy" cursor to indicate their status.

Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support
aozer@NeXT.com