pepke@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) (10/13/89)
Apple has taken a lot of flak for some of the design decisions that were made for MultiFinder, so I thought I'd say something nice for a change. I have been working quite intensely for the past few days on a reasonably well configured NeXT machine (660 Mb hard drive, 8 Mb memory). Doing system management with several windows being edited, a couple of console windows, and a few random applications running makes me really appreciate the fact that the Macintosh puts all the windows of a particular application in one layer. Also, after suffering the application switching and user interface sluggishness for a while on the "true multitasking" NeXT, the nonpreemptive multitasking on the Macintosh seems blindingly fast. Eric Pepke INTERNET: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute MFENET: pepke@fsu Florida State University SPAN: scri::pepke Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 BITNET: pepke@fsu Disclaimer: My employers seldom even LISTEN to my opinions. Meta-disclaimer: Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto) (10/13/89)
In article <274@vsserv.scri.fsu.edu> pepke@loligo.cc.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes: >[stuff about NeXT being slow] I don't think it's the multitasking. I think it's the *&(&#$()# Display Postscript. Who's idea was it to slow the screen down to printer speed anyhow? -- -- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu