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From: johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1991 18:38:09 GMT
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In article <mq5G9v6k1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
[...]
>How much does the faster GUI improve your productivity?  Personally, I
>use the Unix shell and Emacs for a lot of my work.
>
>-Mike

I use the Unix shell, vi, VMS DCL and LSE for almost all of my for-pay
and school work.  You can't tell me that I'm just as productive on a NeXT
(that I'm forced to use for a class) as I am on a X Window workstation
or my A2000.  Almost everybody in my class (Practical Distributed O/S
Systems) develops the solution to assignments on other computers
(workstations) and then does the final execution on the NeXTs.

When you're dealing with multiple windows for interacting processes, your
edit session(s) windows, and your compile window, a slow GUI is a slow death.

Just my personal opinion, of course.

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