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Date: Sun 20-Apr-1989 15:13:13 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Subjective Speed In article <1921@csuna.csun.edu> abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu writes: >My SUBJECTIVE opinion is that the NeXT "feels" slow. You click on a program, >and the system goes away for what seems to be a long time. There is no >indication (cursor change) of "hang on, I'm working on it". ... Several points: - 0.8 is not performance tuned. In 0.8 the idea was to get a working, stable system out to various hands to start development and get back comments/bug reports. 0.9 fixes some of the bugs, includes almost all of the final functionality, incorporating a lot of the comments we got back for 0.8. 1.0 will concentrate on performance and fixing bugs. - 0.9 does provide feedback on app-launch; icons light up until the app is running. The icons in the dock also have a visual indication (three-dots) indicating whether they're running or not. Also a lot of the apps themselves make use of the "busy" cursor to indicate their status. Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support aozer@NeXT.com >From: kean@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Kean Stump)
Date: Sun 20-Apr-1989 18:08:24 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Subjective Speed In article <1921@csuna.csun.edu> abcscnge@csuna.csun.edu (Scott Neugroschl) writes: >My SUBJECTIVE opinion is that the NeXT "feels" slow. You click on a program, >and the system goes away for what seems to be a long time. There is no >indication (cursor change) of "hang on, I'm working on it". The icon shows >up on the bottom, and then it takes a good 10-15 seconds for the app to launch. > >Scott "The Pseudo-Hacker" Neugroschl On Tuesday, a cube running 0.9 was shown to the campus NeXT user's group. I got a chance to play with it a little, and these are some of my impressions: 1) 0.9 is faster than 0.8. The cube we saw was running 0.9 off of the optical, and it was subjectively faster than 0.8 on a hard drive. 0.9 fixes a slight problem with the disk caching software (well, twice as many cache reads as necessary 8) ) that speeds up the disk access a little less than 2X the 0.8 speed. 0.9 also fixes a problem in the interrupt handler (?) that increases the response time to mouseclicks by a lot. I can't wait for my copy to arrive. 2) When you click on an icon to launch an application, the icon stays highlighted until the application is fully launched, and the mouse cursor changes to a spinning disk while the cube is doing something, so you know that it is doing something, and not just hung. 3) The volume and brightness keys repeat when you hold them down. Yeah! 4) The filesystem is not the same as 0.8, just like the release notes warned. 'Till later.....kean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oregon State University Kean Stump College of Oceanography kean@cs.orst.edu Corvallis, Oregon {tektronix,hp-pcd}!orstcs!kean "These aren't even MY opinions!" {tektronix,hp-pcd}!orstcs!shatter!kean ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From: mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin)
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