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From: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland)
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Subject: Re: Amiga vs NeXT
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Date: 7 Nov 90 08:15:23 GMT
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In article <1990Nov6.235708.17534@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>Anyways, there will be 040 Amigas as soon as the 040 ships in production
>quantities.  I figure that the 040 upgrade board will run aroun $1200
>to $2000 depending upon manufacturer and features.
>
Progressive Peripherals' 68040DC card for the Amiga 3000 lists
in the $1200 range  (forget exactly) and includes a fully
implemented 68040 with full-bandwidth access to the motherboard
RAM and also como
includes circuitry for real time peripheral-storage data
compression, transparent to the user and without slowdown.
Floppies, hard disks, Syquests, optical disks, whatever--all are
compressed to store 3 to 10 times their stated capacity.  This
can of course be turned off  (presumably the disks aren't
readable by an unenhanced Amiga).  Without the data compression
the 68040 cards list under $1000.  

BTW, I like lots of things about NeXTs, but (1) be civilized and
(2) quote all the numbers you like, but I've seen NeXTstations
run and they seem quite slow.  Haven't seen the 68040 in either
NeXTstation model.  Whatever chip is in the machines, it seems
Amiga has less overhead chewing on the processor.  Oh, and this
part isn't addressed to Ralph, obviously, regardless of what it
says up there, for obvious reasons.

Enough already.

Thom