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Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni wrote: > Peter da Silva wrote: > >> And it was more responsive on a 7.14 MHz 68000 than BeOS (or MacOS9, or >> Linux) on a 100 MHz PPC. I don't appear to have received this email, so I don't know the whole point you were making, but I didn't find that to be the case at all. I found BeOS to be pretty damn fast, and from what I remember of NeXTs, the ones I used were stupid-slow. That was before I was a real computer junky, and it was campus machines, on who-knows network running i-have-no-idea software, so... I really only remember feeling klunky, but that might have been the interface because of a lack of familiarity or something. >>> Even OS X is an embarassment. They've done a pretty good job of >>> creating a well-integrated sufficiently functional interface, but the >>> amount of hacking they had to do to sit Aqua on Darwin is just painful. >> >> >> Um, well, no. There's a lot of unnecessary hacking in there... NeXT >> did it >> better, Plan 9 IPC and lightweight fork() would be even nicer. >> >>> "Oh, NetInfo, yeah, _everyone_'s using that." >> >> >> You ever used a NeXT? Yes, I have, but I don't think the 14 people out there still using NeXT qualify as noteworthy. I understand where NetInfo comes from, I just don't think it makes much sense to depend on it for much because it sets you outside the norm so far. > What I remembered about the NeXT stations I used (a 030 Cube and a 040 > ColorStation) is that they were, or at least *felt*, really faster than > my then PowerMac 603, making it look like a poor little thing... Huh. I just haven't had that experience, but I haven't used them much. Either way, almost anything could be better than Gnome, KDE, or Aqua. *shudder* -- "When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute, and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity." --Albert Einstein --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://abstractive.org | http://www.bladelogic.comThere's stuff above here
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