Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY! Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT Message-ID: <2347@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 5 Dec 90 19:23:50 GMT Lines: 31 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <86586@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, mitroo@python.cis.ohio-state.edu (varun mitroo) 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. Not having an optical disk, I can't say that I have done that, but I have transferred large volumes of stuff from Suns to my Amiga using tape. No biggie. -larry -- The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+