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From: yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo)
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 18:57:00 GMT
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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.  {

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.  

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.