gshippen@pollux.usc.edu (Gregory Shippen) (02/01/89)
The first real NeXT machine appeared on campus recently and I was fortunate to get a quick demo of the machine. I won't bore everybody with the kudo's. I do however have a question neither I nor the operator could answer: The operator demoed an animation sequence (in this case is was an eagle flying across the screen). We noticed that we could slow down nearly to a halt the animation (indeed stop it completely if we tried hard) by manipulating the brightness controls located toward the right side of the keyboard. This effect baffles me. Why would the process/display be slowed down by hitting these keys? Surely the process monitoring the keyboard and tweaking the screen doesn't require that much time to do it's business. Would somebody try it on their machine and offer an explanation. Enquiring minds want to know..... Greg Shippen University of Southern California gshippen@pollux.usc.edu ******************************************************************************