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From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT
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Date: 1 Dec 90 19:09:51 GMT
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In article <1990Nov30.191229.4301@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> kws1x@dale.acc.Virginia.EDU (Kenneth W. Smith Jr) writes:
>
>Yeah, but who wants to buy a NeXT with a 105M hard drive and have 80M of
>that taken up with the operating system?  :)  At least that's what the 
>NeXT rep here said.

And that doesn't even include everything.  You need a bigger drive to
get everything that is included with the system, although I hardly
look at this as something bad....  I think it's good that they give
you so many goodies.

>I have seen the NeXT (sans color), and now I would like to see A3000UX in
>person.  My choice would probably still be Amiga.  Seen any NeXT ftp cites
>lately?  :)

Try cs.orst.edu.  They've got a whole slew of NeXT stuff there.

           Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.