I don't buy it :O Maybe just navigating around the operating system it's true you won't see it balk too much, but once you run an app ... take OmniWeb; it takes a few minutes to render my simple HTML 3.2 homepage on my NeXTstation color slab, 040/25, 32 megs RAM ... the turbo color slab isn't much faster ...
Contrast to a contemporary Mac i.e. a Quadra 950 or a Mac IIfx, they will render the page faster and feel more responsive. I love the elegance and design of the NeXT hardware and software package but no denying it was pokey ... relative to contemporaries ... almost absolutely :O NeXTstep is a sophisticated environment and it's hard work for an '040 ... Maybe I feel it more because it's slinging 24 bpp at ~1280x1024! You have a mono station? NeXTstep's (err, Rhapsody's, err, Mac OS X's) performance was awful when first ported to the PPC as well. I don't think they really got things cleaned up good until 10.2, at least, maybe 10.3... Best, Sean On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Chris Osborn <fozzt...@fozztexx.com> wrote: > > On May 28, 2015, at 8:20 AM, Sean Caron <sca...@umich.edu> wrote: > > > Can you even run Openstep on the NeXT proprietary hardware? The > performance > > must be awful… > > My NeXTstation 25mhz 68040 with 40 megs of RAM runs OPENSTEP 4.2 just > fine. I never felt like it was laggy or anything. In fact, when I got OSX > (aka OPENSTEP 5) running on a beige G3 tower for the first time, I couldn’t > understand why it was so absolutely unusable, since the performance of > OPENSTEP 4 on my NeXT was very snappy. > > -- > Follow me on twitter: @FozzTexx > Check out my blog: http://insentricity.com > > > >
