🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <H.PKB38Z99yf2@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca> jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca writes:
>    ^^^^^
>     Thanks for being one of the few who doesn't immediately start 
>comparing other companies "educational" prices.
>    Also, I understand Atari's Unix, though still a tad slow on the
>mouse handling and stuff for graphic applications, is still constiderably
>quicker that the NeXT OS, especially the original 030 version. A friend
>of mine who does DTP tried a 040 NeXT running pagemaker in 32 bit colour
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Since when is PageMaker on the NeXT?  I haven't seen it.  Also the only
NeXT machine capable of 32 bit color is a NeXTDimension, which is a
cube with a ND board added.

>mode at a recent show. He basically said you couldn't pay him enough to use
>the system as it is now. Appearntly the lag time between clicking and 
>anything actually happening was frustratingly long. He said the original
>mac was faster( of course that was mono)

You have got to be kidding.  The ND is no way a slug.  If he saw a
NeXT running PageMaker it had to be a beta copy and it had to be a
terrible implementation.  On the other hand you might be talking about
FrameMaker.  But it still isn't that slow.  Your friend or someone at the
show must have had a LOT of stuff runnning, enough to cause the machine
to swap out the application and when your friend came along it had to be
swapped back in from disk.

I use a NeXT everyday.  It is my primary machine at home, that along with
a 386sx machine.
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