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From: dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY!
Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT
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Date: 7 Dec 90 15:47:13 GMT
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In article <21993@well.sf.ca.us> yoo@well.sf.ca.us (Young-Kyu Yoo) writes:
>To Thom Cleland:
>  The Amiga newsgroup is indeed full of well-informed and intelligent 
>posters.  However, your postings re the NeXT have not been well-informed.
>  The 105 MB hard drive for the NeXT does indeed come with nearly 40 MB of
>bundled software (not including the operating system).  The 340 MB hard disk
>does indeed come with nearly 200 MB of bundled software.  True, Mathematic
>is not free to every NeXT buyer, but it IS free to all educational buyers,
>and I assume you and most of Usenet would be among these (of course, there
>are some who are not).  
>  The 040 NeXTs shipped last week (see a previous article on mine for details).
>  The 030 Amigas are more expensive than the 040 NeXTstations.  Do you 
>really expect to get an 040 upgrade and money back from Commodore??  This is
>what it would take to make your 040 Amiga the same low price as the 040
>NeXTStation.  
>  The real issue is price/performance.  There are many machines much faster
>than the NeXT or Amiga.  But the NeXT beats nearly all of them in terms of
>price/performance.  The Amiga is a valiant challenger to NeXT.  But it still
>has a ways to go if it wants to match NeXT's price/performance.  
>  As for matching NeXT's price/features, the Amiga has a very long way to 
>go.  Where's that Amiga DSP?  Those Amiga DMA channels?  That Amiga Mach with
>parallel processing capabilities?  That 2.88 MB floppy drive compatible with
>both 720K and 1.44 MB MS-DOS formats?  

The fact that I have read every argument about the next at least 5 times in
comp.sys.amiga lead me to believe that the people writing in can't read.
Is that common to Next users?
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