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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.113419.16762@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <2361@pdxgate.UUCP> <11053@uwm.edu> <c9GH02Nl06X.01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1991 11:34:19 GMT

In article <c9GH02Nl06X.01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L. Shephard) writes:
> Face the facts, on large screens, windowing sucks up CPU cycles no matter
> what platform.  Also Unix has overhead that slows the CPU.  So compare an
> Amiga or Mac running Unix and a windowing system and see what happens,
> slower still.

That's why people put extra CPUs in to speed up windowing. Well, everyone
except NeXT... their extra CPU is for, um, well they'll think of something...
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
