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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT
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Date: 3 Dec 90 20:10:39 GMT
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In article <21930@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes:
>jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John "Vlad" Adams" writes:
>>Don't forget the cost/performance, in which the Amiga 3000 will truly 
>>outshine the NeXT.
>
>I assume you refer to the Amiga 3000ux.  It has not yet been released and
>cannot hold a candle to the already-shipping 040 NeXTs in terms of 
>price/performance.
>
>An Amiga 3000ux will crank out 5 Mips.  The 040 NeXTs crank out 15-20 Mips
>(both sets of figures are from Motorola).  The 040 NeXTs do nearly 3 MFLOPS,
>the floating point coprocessor on the Amiga 3000ux will be lucky to approach
>1 MFLOP.  {

	This comparison is very silly. You know as well as I do
that a 68040 board for the A3000 will be out almost as soon as
NeXT machines get into full production. Both NeXT and Commodore
(and I think PP&S) are waiting for Motorola to catch up in
shipments. Yes, NeXT will be getting priority, but NeXT isn't
ordering all that many either.
>
>As for issues like PostScript overhead.  PostScript is floating-point intensive
>and this issue has been well-addressed by the large improvement in FPU
>speed.  Printing also has been assigned a lower priority as a background
>task on the new NeXTs.  

	That doesn't fix the problem. Its just a trade off. So
the computer doesn't slow down as much but the job takes longer
to print. Besides, you could've done that before as well, with a
little knowledge of Unix.
>
>The $4000 price quoted in Byte for the Amiga 3000ux is apparently for
>developers/educational buyers from what I can gather from other threads in
>this newsgroup.  A new NeXT will cost a developer $3500 and an educational
>buyer $3000-$3500.  

	It is true that the NeXT has everyone beat in terms of
price.

	-- Ethan

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