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To: X-Ray Man who wrote (5104)	9/22/1997 5:14:00 PM
From: shahn	of 213173

Good point X-Ray Man. Let me say for the record that among unix systems I'm confident that Next/Rhapsody (mach kernel) is modern and fast. Question is are the masses ready for workstation quality and all that entails, which is certain compromises. I think with your comments and soups link, we can agree that for well-compiled programs making good use of the modern os features like multihreaded etc, we will have the power to run tough jobs better than cheap OS's. Thats work station quality. And perhaps also for CERTAIN mundane things, for example if you try background printing in win95 it still hogs and slows up your machine. But under next its truly background and you carry on without even noticiing whats in the print queue (=proper multitasking). I dont know why everyday tasks such as opening applications, starting up, opening the file manager etc are slower but they generally are on most workstations. Maybe its the graphics accelerator cards have drivers optimised for win95 and less good drivers written by Next. I think its a lot of things that involve inevitable compromise between quick and nasty/ robust and careful. The object oriented data handling has its overheads too in the Next case. For example, I think the graphics is heavily PS based. If you do everything in a platform-independent way then your code will be less efficient than special shortcuts for a given platform. Anyhow, I guess we'll be finding out as reviews from users come in over the next months. Thanks for the discussions. Cheers, Shahn

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