[SunRescue] NeXT vs. Sun shootout...

[emp7 at cornell.edu]

> Yup, OpenStep wasn't even supposed to run on the black hardware when originally
> planned.  I certainly wouldn't suggest running it on anything less than an HP
> 712.  Try it with NeXTStep3.x (or even 3.3 on both platforms), and I'm sure you
> will see a big difference.

I'm actually pretty sure that you won't see similar performance.  I also 
have a NeXT slab on my desk (turbo color station, 33 mhz m68040, 48 megs 
o'RAM) sitting next to a Sparc 10 (SM30 (36mhz), 64 megs of RAM).  The 
NeXT is running 3.3 and while it is more than fast enough to use as my 
primary machine, it quite a bit slower at rendering web pages and is 
wholly unable to play mp3s.  I only had NS 3.3 on the sparc for a few 
days before installing linux (and then solaris), but web browsing (and 
viewing image files) was much faster (though I don't have any benchmarks).

Then of course, I switched to solaris and found that everything was much 
faster than NEXTSTEP....sort of shame, since the interface is so much 
prettier in NS.

--eric
...who likes his slab better even if it is a little slow...
...after all, he can empathize with that...