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From: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland)
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Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT
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Date: 4 Dec 90 21:38:22 GMT
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In article <21945@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes:
>kws1x@dale.acc.virginia.EDU (Kenneth W. Smith, Jr.):
>>Yeah, but who wants to buy a NeXT with a 105 MB hard drive and have 80M
>>of that taken up with the operating system?  :)
>
>Good thing you put the smiley there.  The NeXT operating system takes 30-40
>MB.  You get another 40 MB of free software, much of it commercial quality,
>on the 105 MB disk.  If you buy the 340 MB hard disk version, you get nearly
>200 MB of bundled software.  This software includes WriteNow, Mathematica,
>Interface Builder (the BEST reason to buy a NeXT), TeX, multimedia Mail,
>Digital Librarian, Webster, DataViz/Bridge, etc.   If you order a NeXT or
>an 040 upgrade before the end of the year, you also get a free copy of
>Lotus's Improv, an amazing spreadsheet (see October Byte).  
>
>Now, how much free software (excluding the OS) comes on an Amiga hard disk?

Actually, the word over here is that the slab isn't going to be
shipping with so much software included.  Mathematica is
supposed to be gone, for instance.  I'll check up on this and
report to the net  (just for the sake of our comrades'
veracity...   :^))  


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