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From: mitroo@python.cis.ohio-state.edu (varun mitroo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT
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Date: 5 Dec 90 19:38:06 GMT
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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.
					Varun Mitroo
					mitroo@cis.ohio-state.edu