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From: schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (jeffrey schweiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Attention Amiga (and Amiga to be) Users!
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Date: 6 Nov 90 19:40:53 GMT
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Reply-To: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (jeffrey schweiger)
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In article <1990Nov5.211447.17590@cbnewsl.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo) writes:
>
>	I'm having a ball!!!  I've never had so much bundled software that's
>	actually better than anything I ever owned on the Amiga (except games
>	of course!!!)  More professional too!  Show me Mathematica for the
>	Amiga ...
>
>	Oh!  and I've got BSD 4.3 also!
>
>____________________________
>	Felix A. Lugo
>	coco@ihlpb.att.com


Felix - 

I'm glad you like your machine.  Different machines serve different purposes,
and these 'my computer is better than your computer' flames get a bit tiring.
However since this topic has been raised, and this is comp.sys.amiga and not
comp.sys.next, a couple of thoughts:

Commodore has shipped something like 200 times more Amigas than NeXT has
shipped NeXT's.  Sun ships more SPARCStations in one month than NeXT has
shipped NeXT's in their entire history.

The current generation NeXT (which I presume is what you purchased since the
availability of the new machines is extremely limited and will be for some time)
is basically a monochrome only machine, so comparing it to an Amiga doesn't
make much sense.  If this NeXT serves your purposes, you didn't need the Amiga
for what are the Amiga's strong points.

Regarding the new NeXT machines, since they are 68040-based and Motorola is
not yet shipping production 68040's in any significant quantities (if at all),
the machines are not much better than vapor-ware (since they can't be shipped
in any quantity).

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