Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY! Message-ID: <2324@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 3 Dec 90 19:35:15 GMT Lines: 21 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <21929@well.sf.ca.us>, yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes: >Several people have mentioned the Byte article which compared the Amiga >favorably to the NeXT in terms of performance. I chatted with Ben Smith, >the author of the article, on BIX and he admits that he was comparing the >yet-to-be-released Amiga 3000ux with the out-of-production 030 NeXTs. >The article was very misleading in that it gave the impression that he >was talking about the 030 and 040 NeXTs. But he was not. I certainly didn't get that impression. As far as I knew, there was ONLY a 68030 NeXT, and a soon to be released NexTStation. There was nothing in the article to indicate that the comparison was to anything but a NeXT. -larry -- The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+