Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!sdcc6!sdbio2!cleland From: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY! Message-ID: <14702@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 4 Dec 90 21:36:12 GMT References: <25671@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <36454@cup.portal.com> <25701@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <21941@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Reply-To: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland) Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 33 Nntp-Posting-Host: sdbio2.ucsd.edu In article <21941@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes: > >People complained that it is not fair to compare a an 040 NeXT to an 030 >Amiga 3000ux. I agree, but not for the reason you may think. The comparison >is not fair because the Amiga 3000ux is vaporware, while the 040 NeXTs have >shipped. Thus, a NeXT is available today that is much faster than a >promised, but not yet even announced, Amiga 3000ux (if we're to believe >what Motorola says about the comparative speeds of their 030 and 040s). > Incorrect. I still cannot order a 68040 NeXT at my local computer dealer (U. bookstore). I assume they won't be long, as the 68040 has just this week begun to ship. I wonder how a 68040 machine could be shipping when teh 68040 itself was not? The 3000UX is not quite vaporware. It is only available at present to universities, developers, and corporations under special auspices. It's formal announcement and general availability is pending, this is true. I've said before "hurrah for NeXT for being first to ship 040s and hurrah for being blasphemously cheap in its attempt to gain a habitable market share." But the window of time we are discussing is not really significant for the Unix market--if it takes two more months for something that suits ones needs significantly more, they'll wait. Six months, probably not. IMHO... -- ---- Thom Cleland "It is easier tcleland@ucsd.edu to get forgiveness Amiga User's Group at UCSD than permission"