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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
In-Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of 7 Apr 91 03:45:35 GMT
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In article <1991Apr7.034535.26282@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

   How about $500? As an applications platform, the Amiga 500 is pretty close,
   since it's not tossing CPU speed away on VM. Really, a stock NeXT is about as
   responsive as a Mac Classic, which the 500 has beat all hollow. Oh, sure, CPU
   intensive stuff will be faster on the NeXT. What CPU-intensive stuff do you
   get with the machine?

The Objective C compiler benefited from the 040 upgrade, as did
Display Postscript, as did Mathametica, as did just about everything
that you can think of.

Why do you say the NeXT isn't responsive? It's not that bad.  Swapping
can make it seem less responsive at times, but that is something $400
will alleviate.  A NeXT owner should at 8MB of RAM to his Christmas
list -- might only be $200 by then.  You don't click and drag the
entire window on a Classic, you just move the outline.

As for virtual memory, are you saying that you hope the Amiga never
gets it?  Is it better to just run out of memory?

-Mike
