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From: bgribble@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Bill Gribble)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore at FCC
Message-ID: <8731@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 29 Sep 90 00:40:42 GMT
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In article <1990Sep28.235557.29347@hoss.unl.edu> 252u3130@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz) writes:
>The NeXT may have all the Hardware to waste the Amiga, but what about
>the software aspects.  NeXT has HARDLY the 3rd part software support
>that the Amiga does.  3rd party developers are leary of writing NeXT
>software, because frankly, if their program doesn't sell, this step
>could make or break their company.  Thats why when you look for software
>for the NeXT, ya basically only use Mathmatica and the builtin
>compilers.
> 
>I'd take a system where software is being constantly being writtn for.
>True, they may be just games, but they are better then playing with
>the same old mathmatica program.
> 
>Phil Dietz

OK - 1.) I know this is not a NeXT group, and this discussion should 
  probably be somewhere else.
     2.) I do *not* want to be another la-MeB-rain anti-Amigan in 
  anybody's eyes

  *but* (there's always a but, isn't there?)  I think you're pretty much
  off base here.  I've posted before that, regardless of what 192-bit,
  5000x5000 pixel, quadruple bypass hypercolor workstation Apollo or Sun
  is coming out with, I really don't care too much.  Why?  I can't afford
  them, or the software to run them, so I might as well not give myself
  fits over them.  My Amiga has always been the highest performance-to-price
  ratio machine around, and it does what I need, as well as doing a lot of
  stuff nobody else can.  

So I decided that my next computer was/is an Amiga 3000UX:  not only do
  I want to continue to support Commodore, I feel like a unix machine is
  where I want to be about now, computing-power wise.  And an Amiga 3000
  gives me the res/speed/colors I want.  

Until the NeXTstation was announced: more powerful, cheaper, and 
  with better res than the A3000UX (based solely on speculation, I admit.)
  And if one wants a UNIX machine - which is the only arena the next and the
  Amiga would be competing in - there's going to be as much software for 
  the Next as for the A3000UX.  

Maybe I'm wrong - and I still would rather buy an Amiga than a Next.  But 
  it's silly to dismiss the Next out of hand as an alternative to an a3000ux, 
  especially when one looks at the price tag.

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