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From: mike_myke_schwartz@cup.portal.com
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Subject: Re: A3000UX competition
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Date: 28 Dec 90 00:39:39 GMT
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Obviously, my last article was interrupted (by this blasted lousy interface
they have for the portal here).

Just to conclude, what I see in this thread of verbal abuse (er, I mean
discussion), is that NeXT owners are just stuck on NeXT, Mac owners are
stuck on Macs, and Amiga owners are stuck on Amiga.  But the facts are:

The Amiga can Run X-windows, open look, Unix, Mac software (using AMAX),
MS-DOS and Amiga software.  While Unix is clearly the only hope I can see
for a true standard interface for a wide variety of platforms, it does not
make any platform perform very well (it looks like Unix is only going to
be portable to systems with large RAM and hard disks instead of being
portable to anything anyway).  What the other operating systems do provide is
a platform for writing programs that gain the best performance out of the
specific machine.  A 4MB 68030 Amiga with 80MB of hard disk should run
multiple applications similar to what you would run on a Unix machine with
much more hard disk and RAM.

I would like to know what Unix really buys for you when you could have the
identical applications and features (like USENET) from a non-unix machine
with better performance.