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From: kim@watsup.waterloo.edu (T. Kim Nguyen)
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Subject: Re: Voice Mail on Amiga
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Date: 3 Oct 89 06:00:58 GMT
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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?
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