Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: NeXT vs. Amiga ad infinitum. Message-ID: <40996@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 8 Dec 90 01:18:38 GMT References: Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 29 In article WHE46@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett) writes: > For Iowa State's Project Vincent research grant, ISU is getting a large >number of DECStation 2100 systems from DEC for approximately $3000 each. >These are RISC systems with approximately the same overall performance ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^ >as a 25Mhz 68030 system, and include a 104M hard drive, 12M of RAM, 19" ^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ >1280x1024 monochrome monitor, ethernet connectivity, and (of course) ULTRIX >and DECWindows (derivitives of UNIX, X-Windows, and Display PostScript). > -MB- Aigh! The end is near! With these new "powerful" DEC's out, NO Amigas or NeXT's will EVER sell! Why, I might as well throw my Amiga out the window, for all the support I'll be getting. Oh...Woe-is-me....Woe-is-me... Just when I was going to buy CBM stock, too... :-) Marc, I hope you don't think that machines like this new DEC are going to revolutionize the workstation market. A RISC box with the "same overall performance of a 25Mhz 68030 system" is disgracefully slow by today's standards... -- Greg Harp |"How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu|lost souls swimming in a fishbowl, year after year, Amiga: (n.) multimedia |running over the same ground. What have we found? "Yes, but NeXT what?" |The same old fears. Wish you were here." - Pink Floyd