Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!xwm From: xwm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Alexei Rodriguez) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore at FCC Message-ID: <14478@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 27 Sep 90 20:20:30 GMT References: <9009270725.AA02487@mcs-server.gac.edu> Reply-To: xwm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Alexei Rodriguez) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 29 Having just returned from the Campus Computer Fair and having spent a considerable amount of time at the NeXT booth, I would like to make some corrections to some of the posts that have been going around: The NeXTstation is the 040 machine w/ 8megs and 105meg Quantum. Although the OS (MACH) and various applications take up around 65meg, you also have 20meg for disk-swapping (VM?). That leaves you with 20megs free. Not a whole lot and you only have the basic OS 2.0. When you purchase a NeXT you are also buying the rights to the whole OS 2.0 which includes the extended release that has the Developers Apps (Interface Builder, etc..). Now, the difference in price between the 105M and the 340M drives is around $1500 because the 340M Quantum is a 3.5" half-height drive, the first of it's kind. The Educational pricing discount ranges from 20-40%. At 40% off, that means that for $2995 a NeXTstation can be had. Add a 200Mb SCSI HD to that for ~$1100, add the rest of the OS and you have yourself one heck of a machine. Add up to 32megs in 1 or 4 SIMM configurations. I must say that the new NeXTstations have made me think long and hard about my needs as a student, particularly a CS major. I use UNIX all day long and it will get worse. NeXT is offering a unix box that, all though not that expandable, is very powerful. It has most of the things I need and those that it doesn't have I can easily get. Mathematica and Lotus Improve are included as are a few GNU utilities. X windows is available and so is Word Perfect. Do not flame me for I am an avid Amiga fan and promoter. I am just stating that the NeXT suits my present and future needs. Slater..... Alexei Rodriguez