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From: al158305@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Gustavo Cordova Avila)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga vs NeXT
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Date: 10 Nov 90 02:44:39 GMT
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jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:


>Hmm. The Amiga soundchip is next to nothing for me, because it can't
>produce professional quality sound. (I make computer music.) And for me,
>the NeXT DSP is more valuable than the Amiga's "special" chips together.
>Sure, the Amiga's blitter is absent from the NeXT, but if I need
>decent color graphics, I require Iris standard graphics a'la NeXTDimension
>(but I don't need color graphics, so I will buy a mono NeXTstation).

   Well, then if you don't need such a machine, then obviously you also
don't need to be talking about them, right? Why not better talk in a
newsgroup dedicated to NeXT instead of flaming around "just because"?

>There should (at least very soon) be a program called "Renderman" for
>NeXTs, which I believe will be VEERY powerful graphic/animation program.

   Well, that's good news. Not that it surprises us, we've had rendering
software since the beginning (anybody remember the original Sculpt-3D?)

>You keep talking about NeXT as a plain DTP machine. (I read it between
>the lines.) What is the reason for this?

   Here in campus we have some NeXT's, and, in using them I've had that
impression, like it's only a bigger mac, and sometimes slower like when
it's moving windows and mouse. i really get desperate when I move a mouse
and the machine takes a second or three to *start* to take notice about
it. etc etc. It's display postscript is nice, specially to do previews,
but I prefer a *real* fast gui, like amiga's, even the macs are quicker
at that.

>IMHO, the only thing that Amiga2000 is better choice than NeXT for is
>not-so-expensive animation work. (And if you want really good graphics,
>NeXT is hard to beat.)

   Well, precisely, that was the philosophy behind the original creators
of the amiga, to build a fast, capable and low-cost graphics machine, and
they really succeeded at that. It's a diffrent market niche than the NeXT
if you're talking about the A2000, but in my opinion, the A3000 is for
people who want a *fast* machine but saw the light before plunging into
NeXTdom.

   Well, that's MHO, I still prefer the amiga over anything I've seen
yet, and maybe with some expansion, a 68020/030, math chip and some
8 megs autoconfig/8 megs 32-bit RAM, ECS, I'll have a machine better
than anything in campus (unless it's the rs/6000).

   Enough rambling, gotta go have dinner... 

cu@the.mouse

Ranger Elf
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************************** Gustavo Cordova Avila ***************************
* al158305@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx      | Majoring in Electronics Systems Eng. *
* pl158305@tecmtyvm.mty.itesm.mx    | in Monterrey Tech, Mexico.           *
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