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From: jeremym@chopin.udel.edu (Jeremy A Moskowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT
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Date: 29 Nov 90 22:44:43 GMT
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Yeah.. they were here yesterday, and for about an hour I
sat down and played with one. I was ready to dump-o my 2000
and go NeXT. The things that can do is *OUTRAGSOUS!*
 
I really wish the Amiga could be made that sweete! (hint hint
							 dave haynie!)
The selectable items on the righthand side, the menus popping up
at the touch of a right mouse key (i know this can be done
				     with hacks and crap but I want it built
				     in)
The optical drive kicks *ASS* and the unix operating system directly
linking with applications is excellent. I was in Next's unix...
(which was sinply two next's hooked together for effect)
and I typed a wrong command that I thought would format text
or whatever.. and "Word Perfect" sprung up. Get it? It's
built in Next! is built into it's own Unix operating system.
 
I didn't notice any speeding Next's though.. Ithink these
were the (winpy) 68030 models.. if it was an '040 I wouldn't
have seen "Please Wait..." three times. It just woulda done it.
 
Lip service thru networking ROCKS - I thought this would be a
useless feature.. unil my mind stoped saying AMIGA! ONLY!
and thought about potential... it's really great having
everything so well organized. 
 
And it's not that amiga cannot do this. I'd say that a 2000
is 50% of a next...a gvp 3001 board would bring it up
to 60%. Then you need unix, (good, not shotty) networking
both twisted and line LAN's, and Lip Service. The
flicker of Ami's applications must go bye-bye.. it
wont hack it. Postscript support in all programs, is
obviously a must - c'mon commodore - I thought we
were tops until THIS! 

That'll bring it up to 90%... now SPEED and integration
of all packages will do it. I think their music and graphics
are on the same format.. (or if they're not... they should
			     have been .. I think it's a good idea)
Our Amiga's IFF format died centuries ago...We need a format
that explicedly allows for direct postcript printing. Yeesh...
Amiga was never Like Next.
 
The only thing I can thig of that my Amiga has over the Next is:
1) Price  - big schwoop... if you're gonna pay 2000 for a 2000
			   might as well pay 3000 for a next
2) Software - no comparison
			- I have 1,000 disks and there's
			  no way Next has more than 200 packages
			  (I have their book, I know)

3) I have an Optical Mouse, and they don't! Ha!
 
Also, their MIDI is shotty (worthless, morelikely)
but, at least once it's in there, it can be postscripted....
 
Also, the next can hook up to AppleTalk (3rd party boards..)
but...we cant, yet. Amiga is losing out. We *HAD* the edge in 1984.
What happening for the 1990's?
 



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