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From: erick@CSUFresno.EDU (Eric Keisler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.182200.25972@CSUFresno.EDU>
Date: 6 Dec 90 18:22:00 GMT
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Reply-To: erick@zimmer.CSUFresno.EDU (Eric Keisler)
Organization: California State University, Fresno
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In article <21993@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes:
>To Thom Cleland:
>  The Amiga newsgroup is indeed full of well-informed and intelligent 
>posters.

No argument here!  ;-)

>  The 030 Amigas are more expensive than the 040 NeXTstations.
>...what it would take to make your 040 Amiga the same low price as the 040
>NeXTStation.  
>  The real issue is price/performance.  There are many machines much faster
>than the NeXT or Amiga.  But the NeXT beats nearly all of them in terms of
>price/performance.  The Amiga is a valiant challenger to NeXT.  But it still
>has a ways to go if it wants to match NeXT's price/performance.  

Look, why do *so many* people insist on comparing oranges to bannanas?  The
Amiga is a *C O L O R* system.  There is no such beast as a 4 color monochrome
Amiga *CPU*.  All Amigas have color support and specialized graphics CPUs built
in.  If your are going to compare a NeXT to ANY Amiga, for god's sake at least
use the NeXTStation Color system.  Then REDO your price/performance math, write
it down, and LOOK at what you just wrote, O.K.?

Heck, there are *numerous* monochrome based systems that come in at a low
price.  But add color capability to many of those systems and WHAM-O, it's 
time for a second mortgage on the house.  Of course a third mortgage would be
required if you want to do any sort of animation or video graphics.

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Eric Keisler, CSU Fresno
erick@zimmer.ucs.csufresno.edu