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From: wwedwards@crocus.waterloo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Paula -> modem ??
Summary: the NeXt machine
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Date: 5 Aug 89 19:08:18 GMT
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In article <6052@ingr.com> phil@ingr.com (Phil Johnson) writes:
>
>As much as I would like to think that my Ami could do it, I'm afraid she just
>can't match NeXT.  PLEASE somebody tell me I'm wrong.
>
Sorry, I can't say it.  But then the BASIC setup for the NeXT computer is at
least six times as costly as the Amiga.  The set-up is pretty impressive, though.  8 Megs of Ram, an OS that is totally BSD Unix compatible (but with a much
simpler, mouse driven interface), 256Meg Read/Write CD storage with the option
of 660Meg Hard drive.  The thing that took me most by suprise is that there is
256K of memory (not a part of the basic 8 Megs) that is used just for the 
Video display.  It's a system that I can see having severe teething problems
in the first few years but hit its stride sometime in the early to mid-ninties.

Wayne Edwards

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but death comes in the form of exams"