cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman) (04/16/91)
hal@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Aaron Harsh) writes: < gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes: < >nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen) writes: < >> NeXT is a pretty nice system. I don't know why all the Amiga people are < >> trying to make having Display Postscript sound like something bad to have. < > < >It's nice. But it's a processor hog, and it's useless for many things < >that I do every day. < < >Do you honestly believe your term program NEEDS < >to have DP? What about a spreadsheet? Your screen blanker? < < My term program isn't slowed down by PostScript. The serial port is the < bottleneck here. My spreadsheet isn't slowed down by PostScript. Processor < speed is the bottleneck here. These are really horrible examples. I wonder < what Gregory has against DPS? I wonder what he wants to run at blinding < speeds that DPS won't let him do? Why do you assume that he (Gregory) has anything against DPS? I can't speak for him, but I can say that I have nothing 'against' it, other than the incessant babbling by all the Next junkies telling me that I should dump my Amiga and buy a Next. One of the 'reasons' they continually cite is that the Next has DPS. DPS is not enough of a reason for me to change my computing platform. You'll have to do a lot better than that. < >Your games? < < I think I've found my answer. Well, Greg, on an old '030 NeXT running 1.0, < DPS was fast enough to run a reasonable flight simulator. But if you're a < serious gamer, and you need a serious game machine, buy an Amiga. You should know better than to throw around flippant remarks such as this, and expect them to go unchallenged. I am a serious gamer, and ray-tracer, and word processor, and 'databaser', and DTP'er, and programmer, and ... well, you get the idea. Fine. You can do great DTP, and run spreadsheets (which have never held much fascination for me), and probably many other things, all with your Next. I'm happy for you. Just don't go telling me that my Amiga is a second-class citizen of the computer world, simply because it can do all those things AND play incredible games (FAR beyond 'reasonable flight simulators'). [ Subjective drivel about what is or is not 'noticeably slow' deleted ] Regards, Chris -- Chris (Insert phrase here) Seaman | ___-/^\-___ qatul batlh. cseaman@sequent.com <or> | //__--\O/--__\\ qatul Huch. ...!uunet!sequent!cseaman | // \\ qatul roj. The Home of the Killer Smiley | `\ /'