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From: schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (jeffrey schweiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT
Message-ID: <1747@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 6 Dec 90 18:56:04 GMT
References: <21993@well.sf.ca.us>
Reply-To: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeff Schweiger)
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
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In article <21993@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes:

[much deleted]

>  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.  
>  As for matching NeXT's price/features, the Amiga has a very long way to 
>go.  Where's that Amiga DSP?  Those Amiga DMA channels?  That Amiga Mach with
>parallel processing capabilities?  That 2.88 MB floppy drive compatible with
>both 720K and 1.44 MB MS-DOS formats?  

To which I could reply:

Where's the NeXT Unix SVR4 (although not officially released there are many
A3000UX's shipped)?  Where's the NeXT Video Toaster?  Where's the large
NeXT installed user base (there are over 2 million Amigas shipped, how many
NeXT's are there)?

Look, this thread has long since ceased to be productive, and certainly has no
further useful contribution to comp.sys.amiga.  Like Mike Smithwick a little
earlier, I have now allowed myself to be dragged into this 'discussion'.
The Amigas and the NeXTs are machines designed and optimized for different
purposes, and are hopefully good at their intended market areas, which are _not_
the same.

Mr. Yoo, thank you for your information, but if I want further information on
the topic, I'll read comp.sys.next.  Comp.sys.amiga is intended for Amiga
discussions, and without your postings, this entire thread would have died
down a long time ago.

Jeff Schweiger

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