tholland@amy.skidmore.edu (03/14/91)
We've just upgraded to th 040 CPU on one of our NeXTs and I noticed some peculiar behavior: If we r demos....like scene or molecule, things do happen MUCH faster than before, but they experiences "pauses". Example: molecules spin VERY fast, then pause for a moment, then spin fast again....and this continues. Running various "movies" in scene ......they are not continuous.....as they were with the 030... they move very quickly, then pause, then move, then pause, etc. Can anyone advise me....if you've upgraded to 040 and 2.0 already, do you experience this same sort of behavior witscene, molecule, and other apps am worried that something was damaged during the upgrade process, or that we have a buggy new board, or some such painful problem. Many thanks for any advice/help: Anthony Holland Skidmore College tholland@amy.skidmore.edu or next mail: tholland@pars.skidmorededu
shingres@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil (shing res acct) (03/19/91)
In article <1053.27df3aa1@amy.skidmore.edu> tholland@amy.skidmore.edu writes: >We've just upgraded to th 040 CPU on one of our NeXTs and I noticed >some peculiar behavior: If we r demos....like scene or molecule, >things do happen MUCH faster than before, but they experiences >"pauses". Example: molecules spin VERY fast, then pause for a moment, This is no doubt due to the fact that you are working on a UNIX system which is multi-tasking. When your animation pauses, the computer is paying attention to some other process momentarily. This happens due to "sync"s, daemons, other apps processing in the background and the like. Do not be concerned. If you would like smooth animation on a UNIX machine, an Silicon Graphics IRIS workstation does a very nice job. There is NOTHING WRONG with your NeXT Computer. Be of good cheer. Michael M. Mayer (mayer@taurus.cs.nps.navy.mil) ==============================