Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!voder!nsc!amdahl!JUTS!duts!kls30 From: kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY! Summary: NeXT vs Amiga Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT Message-ID: Date: 5 Dec 90 19:01:17 GMT References: <16321@brahms.udel.edu> <25671@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Reply-To: kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA Lines: 48 In article <25671@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes: >Don't forget the cost/performance ratio, in which the Amiga 3000 will >truly outshine the NeXT. Oh, do a postscript laser file dump. What >your multitasking ability on that NeXT drop as it does all the >postcript internally. > >And then there's the December '90 Byte article which says that >the 3000UX easily outperforms the Mac II, the NeXT, and a 386 >at Unix. For all you people that don't know. 1. NeXT does have real Unix, it uses a Mach kernal, AT&T Unix, BSD extensions. 2. I have seen a NeXTstation. It is fast. No way can a '030 machine outperform a '040 machine. The NeXTstation is equivalent Sparc 1+. The '030 Amiga is not. No matter what Byte says. The performance of the 25mHz '040 is at least 2 to 3 times that of a 330mHz '030. 3. NeXT fitted all the later '030 cubes w/a 40meg drive for swapping. It also retrofitted a lot of the original cubes (optical only) with the drives also. 4. Cost/performance the Next is still better. You will have to add add a larger HD to both 100 meg is definitely not enough for Unix. You are going to need 3 times that. 5. Run X11 on the Amiga and compare that to the '040 NeXT. The winner will be NeXT. '030 does not equal '040 when it comes to a complicated GUI like X11 or NeXTstep. 6. And above all you have to compare the '040 NeXT to the 3000UX because a '030 NeXT is no longer sold except as a clearance item >k >-- >John M. Adams --**-- Professional Student on the eight-year plan! /// >Internet: jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu -or- vladimir@maple.circa.ufl.edu /// >"We'll always be together, together in electric dreams" Moroder & Oakey \\V// >Sysop of The Beachside. FIDOnet 1:3612/557. 904-492-2305 (Florida) \X/ -- /* -The opinions expressed are my own, not my employers. */ /* For I can only express my own opinions. */ /* */ /* Kent L. Shephard : email - kls30@DUTS.ccc.amdahl.com */