Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Message-ID: <1990Dec8.071829.3307@utstat.uucp>
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 90 07:18:29 GMT
References: <21970@well.sf.ca.us> <1990Dec6.004705.28623@nas.nasa.gov> <22042@well.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <22042@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes:
[ongoing NeXT vs. Amiga debate which seems pointless. Both are nice.]

>The NeXT's laser printer is 400dpi and costs $1795 retail.  Educational buyers
>and developers can get it for approx. $1200.  If this is still too pricey, 
>you can hook up other printers, like Apple's ImageWriter, using some
>free/share software.  

Sorry to the Amiga folk for gwtting NeXT info here. I also have an A3000
question. First to the A3000. Will an A3000+cd-rom= CDTV? Are the Sierra
games supported on the A3000? Will games/educational software be moved to
the A3000? I was as the World of Commodore Show here in Toronto and was
rather impressed. There's lot's going on in the Amiga world that's exciting
and accessible to more people than in the NeXT world( I have a NeXT). But
one thing that Commodore should be pushing is the scientific possibilities
of the Amiga. There's a bit of software that is very good in that domain, and
Commodore would be wise to bundle it with Amigas instead of games, painting
programs,etc...I'm thinking of Math Vision, Amiga TeX, Maple. Get them to do
a port of S  from Bell Labs. This would give the Amiga fantastic statistical
data analysis and interactive graphics' capabilities for all scientists. It
is the premier statistical program. Actually New S or S+ would be even better.
The port should be straightforward using Unix. It does not run on the Mac.

As for the NeXT( which I really like as my Mac replacement), printing to the
ImigaWriter is totally unacceptable. What about support for the Deskjet or
the Painjet or the Laserjet etc...? Where is it? I can't stand 9 pin printers
that cost more than 300 dot/in HP ones.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]