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From: dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT
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Date: 6 Dec 90 01:31:34 GMT
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In article <86586@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> varun mitroo <mitroo@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>In article <21969@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes:
>
>>To all those who have said that the NeXT software selection is limited.
>>Get a NeXT. You will be pleasantly surprised at what's already out there
>>in terms of software, both commercial and freeware/shareware.  There are
>>already more than a half dozen ftp sites for NeXT software.  The ones at
>>Purdue, Oregon State, and Maryland seem to be the most popular.
>>
>Here's something I bet not too many people have done with their amigas:
>Last week, I took a blank optical disk (from my cube at home) to one of the
>NeXTs located on campus.  From there I ftped (is there such a verb?) to a
>NeXT site and downloaded everything from the /bin directory and whatever else
>I wanted - in total about 30 megs of stuff - onto my optical disk.  Before I
>took out my optical drive, I decided to check how much of it was used up.
>14% used.  NeXT is not what you hear about on comp.sys.amiga.  Try it out and
>see.
>					Varun Mitroo
>					mitroo@cis.ohio-state.edu

This Next thread gets more amusing by the minute. This must be one of the best
yet :-)

The following is an imaginary story since I can't afford an optical drive.
(they do exist for the amy)

I went down to the store and bought all the optical disks they had. Then I
filled them with PD software. Then I phoned and ordered more disks. One day
I hope to start doing backups of my commercial software too, but first I
must find somewhere to buy more disks...

Howzabout calling a truce until the machines are available off_the_shelf?
We can always harass those poor mac and pc owners that are really missing
out on the computer revolution :-)

Regards, Jorgen

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