Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!kim From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Voice Mail on Amiga Message-ID:Date: 3 Oct 89 06:00:58 GMT References: <688@orange6.qtp.ufl.edu> <1989Oct2.132314.12313@rpi.edu> Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Distribution: na Organization: PAMI Group, U. of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 22 In-reply-to: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu's message of 2 Oct 89 13:23:14 GMT In article <1989Oct2.132314.12313@rpi.edu> kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes: It shouldn't have been highly CPU-intensive. You could do the same thing on the Amiga very easily- just do the computation beforehand.... (The way to make impressive demos is *not* to slow down the machine.) That makes sense, but I think the point was to show how fast the NeXT's DSP was when it came to number crunching (so precalculating would have made the demo irrelevant). Nguyen> When did you last see a graphics/mouse-based interface for a Unix Nguyen> workstation? About 12 hours ago. (Sorry, I couldn't resist... and you did ask....) :) OK, I'll bite: what machine was it? -- T. Kim Nguyen kim@watsup.waterloo.{edu|cdn} kim@watsup.uwaterloo.ca {uunet|utzoo|utai|decvax}watmath!watsup!kim Systems Design Engineering -- University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada