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From: c60a-gy@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Ben (Benno) Carroll)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A3000 -vs- NeXT war
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Date: 5 Dec 90 20:19:32 GMT
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To the people who responded to my last post: 
(you know..."the ongoing debate"

First of all, thank you for responding...that was my first post in this group
, and my second overall.  It's a pretty neat system, I think...:)

I have a followup question about the NeXT's price: if they are making a 
comfortable amount of money now...why did they introduce the NeXT at such
exhorbitant (sp?) prices years ago...did they think that there would be 
enough wealthy elite computer users who wanted the computer in the prettiest
box to install a reasonable user base?  It is nice to see that they can sell
such great technology at such good prices...maybe every other manufacturer 
should keep a close eye on *how* they do it, and then *maybe* try to do the 
same :)

And to my second respondant, the soapbox lecturer:  I am sorry that it took
a religious turn...that was a semantics mistake on my part.  I didn't mean
to imply that any other computer was useless or anything.  That is a 
ridiculous concept.  What I meant to say was that I would like to see the 
tables turned, to some degree.  Platforms like the NeXT and the Amiga offer
great power and flexibility at a low cost.  Mac offers reasonable flexibility
at high costs (anything within Amiga price range cannot be typed into, and 
cannot displa anything, excepting the new mac classic, which is outpreformed
by an even cheaper Amiga), and IBM offers a very old fashioned, non-evolving
system (well, it is evolving ...more and more cycles per second...but that's
nothing special) at ridiculous costs.  I think that if more people were 
willing to try something new, IBM's would soon disappear (from the desk
top computer niche), because, for what they do, there is no reason to pay
such high prices. 
Also, I think that it is IBM's domination which lends Amiga the stigma of 
being only a game machine...I went into a computer store (only IBM-clones)
soon after getting my Ami, in order to stock up on disks buy a couple of
disk holders.  I had 50 disks and 2 holders on the counter, and decided to 
ask if they could order me Lattice C.  The guy laughed and said that was 
ridiculous.  He confided in me, "y'know, all the amiga is good for is games"
and I confided in him,"I don't buy anything from salespeople who don't 
know what they are talking about."

I am starting to babble, I guess, and am probably bordering on more 
religious topics...so I'll quit while I am ahead. 
:^D

just put this one on a low simmer....
                                 ^^^^
-Benno (for now c60a-gy@danube.berkeley.EDU)
Amiga...because that's what all my software runs on.