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>and cubes and have been testing Beta 1, 2 and have Gold installed.  It is
>without a question the slowest upgrade since 6.0.7 to 7.0 on the mac
>(which by the was was the last straw and made us stop Mac development).

I just upgraded my Cube from NS 2.1 -> NS 3.3 and yes there *is* a
noticable slowdown however it is no where near as bad as the overhead
introduced by Macintosh System 7.0.  My NeXT system is an 040 Cube with
a meager 8 meg of memory although I have a lot of swap on my disk
(about 100 meg) because I do a lot of Lisp and Motif work.

Yes I wait a little longer for the little spinning wheely and for some
apps to launch, but I'm sure THAT NEXT WILL MAKE 3.X A LOT FASTER IN
SUCESSIVE RELEASES (not subtle hint).

The upgrade from 2.1 -> 3.0 was the easiest, smoothest upgrade I've ever done
although few things did break but these were easily corrected.  For example
my rc.local file was replaced but if you're smart, you make backups of important
files like this and then reinstall them afterwards.  One thing I didn't like was
that my File Browser setups all dissapeared.  Grumble.

My biggest complaint are the new icons.  GOD those things are ugly.  And not
just a couple of them.  EVERY SINGLE ONE is hideously rendered.  I thought
the old "folder" icon was dumb looking but the new one is just plain stupid
looking.  And the mailbox.  Yuk!  It looks like they were trying for some kind
of enhanced perspective effect but it comes off really bad.  Please oh
please oh please NeXT PLEASE bring back the old icons and ditch these turkeys!

>I agree with Eric Scott (EPS) that 3.0 does seem to be a serious problem
>and historically a bad release for software (how about Ultrix 3.x ;').

Oh come on its not THAT bad :-)

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