Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!mvb.saic.com!ncr-sd!crash!nusdecs!nusjecs!ozonebbs!vsolanoy From: vsolanoy@ozonebbs.UUCP (Victor Solanoy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Sorry Guys, There is NO WAY! Keywords: AMIGA 3000 vs NEXT Message-ID: Date: 10 Dec 90 20:01:16 GMT References: <1990Dec6.013134.11321@cs.umu.se> Organization: The Ozone BBS +1 408 223 1738 Lines: 46 dvljhg@cs.umu.se (J|rgen Holmberg) writes: > In article <86586@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> varun mitroo >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 els > >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 an > >see. > > Varun Mitroo > > mitroo@cis.ohio-state.edu > > This Next thread gets more amusing by the minute. This must be one of the bes > yet :-) > > The following is an imaginary story since I can't afford an optical drive. > (they do exist for the amy) > > I went down to the store and bought all the optical disks they had. Then I > filled them with PD software. Then I phoned and ordered more disks. One day > I hope to start doing backups of my commercial software too, but first I > must find somewhere to buy more disks... > > Howzabout calling a truce until the machines are available off_the_shelf? > We can always harass those poor mac and pc owners that are really missing > out on the computer revolution :-) > > Regards, Jorgen > > -- Interesting... does that mean the Amiga is actually a threat to NeXT? Boy.. with Amiga UNIX coming out and the little review it got from BYTE.... maybe it is...... Victor