rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (12/16/89)
Howdy, folks.
Let's try to keep this newsgroup from deteriorating into
NeXT vs Mac vs Amiga wars. Instead, let's get some nice
hacks and technical information, and we can all be happy.
When posting, ask yourself:
Is my knee jerking spasmodically?
Here's my contribution. Why and wherefore* does it take
such a long time to open a simple terminal window? On
my Amiga I can pop up a new Shell (roughly equivalent to
a terminal window), including reading, parsing, and
executing a startup file, in under 0.3 seconds. Is the
time lost in the PostScript interpreter, in the task
switching, in the commands fetch from the hard disk,
or what?
I love the NeXT computer, but we have to start identifying
these weak links and make the sucker fly . . .
-tom
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* re-read Romeo and Juliet if you question this usage.
`Wherefore art thou Romeo' does not contain a comma.