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From: xrtnt@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Nigel Tzeng)
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Subject: Re: The Word of Byte...
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Date: 5 Dec 90 21:18:22 GMT
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In article <21967@well.sf.ca.us>, yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes...
^Take that Byte article with a very large grain of salt.  It was written
^with some very misleading information.  The $4000 pricing, by all indications
^is educational pricing, not list.  The standard machine comes with 4 MB,
^not 8.  The Moniterm monitor displayed in the illustration is not the
^monitor that comes standard with the Amiga.  The standard display is not
^nearly as nice.  The author of the article compared the yet-to-be officially
^release Amiga 3000ux with the out-of-production NeXT 1.0 computers.  
^There should be a whole slew of retractions in upcoming issues of Byte.
^Enjoy the glow while you can.

I really dislike being rude but people who insist on pissing contests only
prove who is the bigger dick.  The thread originally held interesting cost vs
power comparisons between the two platforms but now is some nerdy macho thing.

Please take the NeXT discussion and any followup flames to comp.sys.next, the 
computer religion newsgroup or better yet: nowhere.

NT

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