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From: dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT
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Date: 7 Dec 90 16:35:26 GMT
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In article <22015@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes:
>>  Nothing beats the Amiga as far as ease of USE.  As far as ease of
>>programming, I would suggest the Amiga ten thousand zillion times before
>>a Mac or a NeXT!
>
>First, the NeXT is easier to use in many ways than a Mac.  I think it
>compares very favorably to an Amiga.  You see, the NeXT hides Unix.  No
>greps, no vi, no ls is necessary (but it's all there if you want to use it).
>The programmer and user works at the level of NeXTStep, which sits on top
>of Unix.  It is an ideal environment for creative interface-intensive
>applications.  You have a state-of-the-art object-oriented programming
>environment that it extremely powerful and easy to use.  You will see
>revolutionary software come out on the NeXT.  Lotus's Improv is just one
>example (check out October Byte).  The NeXT software development 
>environment really frees the programmer from old assumptions of limitations
>(both in terms of hardware and interface) and makes him/her feel
>that he/she can do just about anything.  Just one reason some NeXT
>programmers are cocky and occasionally wonder over to other newsgroups
>to spread the gospel :-).

Change a few words and you have just summed up what's so great about the amiga.
Do you want to trade me a Next for my A500?

Jorgen
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