dwboyce@acsu.buffalo.edu (Doug Boyce) (04/21/91)
In article <11226@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes: >2) How large is it? Something that large takes up processor time, >like it or not. It simply does. PostScript itself is rather clunky >and Display Postscript is better--but not by much. >3) If it truly does take up 10% of a 68040, as you said, it _IS_. >May not be that much to someone who has never had to squeeze every >inch of a productive session out of a computer. But for those who >have used Suns, Apollos, or ANYTHING except a NeXT know that a slow >GUI is BAD for productivity. And the solution, as you would like to >think, is NOT to throw in a bigger cpu. >I believe someone said that you should code for the smallest, fastest, >most optimized programs, no matter what you plan on running it on. > >The Unix kernal in general is big and obtrusive. NeXT's kernal is >larger than most, if not all, I believe. That fact in itself makes me >a tad wary. Why should the kernal be larger than most?????? The NeXT uses Mach which is a back to basics, small kernal fashioned to behave to the user as 4.3BSD. It is not the standard bloated System V or BSD edition. Come on Amigoids, Don't you think this attack on DPS with (no concrete evidence) has gone on long enough. (its slow. no it ain't. yes it is. mine's bigger. whip it out.) Compare the two systems overall and go for what you want and can afford. Not everyone can afford a NeXTstation mono or color with enough memory and disk space to feel comfortable. If you want a *cheap* multitasking machine get an Amiga 500. If you want rather cheap 4.3BSD compatable unix box with a great GUI and not one of those striped down unix-wannabe get a NeXT. The NeXT is not there to take to Amiga's, Mac's, or SUN's market. It will aquire it if and when people like what it can do and the software they want is available. Let's change the subject. Are there cheap CD-ROM drives available for the Amiga and MAC? -- Doug Boyce dwboyce@acsu.buffalo.edu "Speedballs are interesting if you aren't the cannoneer doing the running."
peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) (04/22/91)
In article <72147@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> dwboyce@acsu.buffalo.edu (Doug Boyce) writes: > Why should the kernal be larger than most?????? Because the NeXT's O/S is based on Mach 2: it's got most of the standard BSD kernel running as a task under Mach. It's not a 4BSD emulator: it is BSD running under another O/S. > Let's change the subject. Are there cheap CD-ROM drives available for the > Amiga and MAC? Commodore is either selling or about to sell one so that Amiga users can take advantage of CDTV software. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' <peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.