Wanted: stand for NeXT monitor

Sean Caron scaron at umich.edu
Sat May 30 09:46:33 CDT 2015


I swear, this is the only place in the world where I have seen the group
consensus shake out that NeXTstep was fast and responsive on the NeXT '040
hardware :O

I am about to go downstairs and benchmark my Color Slab vs my Quadra 800
and make sure I'm not going nuts, LOL.

Best,

Sean


On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Jerry Kemp <other at oryx.us> wrote:

> Jumping in on the bandwagon.
>
> A few years back, I had a friend loan me his NeXT slab for about a year.
> 25 Mhz CPU.  Everything pretty much stock.
>
> My observation of the default GUI was it was pretty darn quick, not even
> taking into account the hardware it was running on.
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
> On 05/29/15 02:44 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
>
>
>>>
>> My impression is the same - the UI on my Cube, slabs, is quite zippy. I
>> think
>> that hardware blitter helps...
>>
>> --Toby
>>
>>
>>


More information about the cctalk mailing list