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From: tschiller@trillium.uwaterloo.ca (Thorsten Schiller)
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.203137.1248@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: 68040 & NeXT
Sender: shadow@watcsc.uwaterloo.ca (Thorsten Schiller)
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <4378@mindlink.UUCP> <1991Jan10.010956.8925@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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Date: Thu, 10 Jan 91 20:31:37 GMT
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In article <1991Jan10.010956.8925@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>In article <4378@mindlink.UUCP> a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) writes:
>>> jon@brahms.udel.edu writes:
>>> 
>>> Listen, you guys are simply missing the POINT!
>>> 
>>> There is nothing better than the Amiga, and there
>>> never, ever will be.  It's just THAT SIMPLE!
>>> 
>>> It's quite simple if you would just accept the obvious!
>>
>>Well, I suppose it depends on whether you get educational discounts or not.
>>For $4500 (Canadian) I can get a NeXT with better graphics (though no colour
>>:-(), a bettter OS (BSD 4.3), better sound and amazingly more CPU horsepower
>>and Ethernet built in.  Alternatively, I can get an IBM with better graphics,
>>more CPU power and more memory and hard drive space for an equivalant price to
>>any Amiga.  And again, I can, for a nominal charge, grab a copy of 386BSD and
>>be running a decent OS on it. The Amiga is a reasonable machine, but pricewise
>>it just doesn't complete.
>>
>>cjs
>>--
>>Please reply to curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca or curt@cynic.uucp.
>>No silly quotes from this machine....
>
>
>DREAM ON. NOTHING BEATS THE AMIGA. NOTHING! NeXT? It doesn't cook
>spaghetti so it's no good! IBM? It has Intel chips, that disqualifies
>it immediately from being useful. Mac? Its made by Apple, get real!
>Price? Who cares about price. Once you see an Amiga, you'll buy it
>no matter what the price is, just because its an Amiga. 
>
>:-) :-) :-)
>
>Seriously. NeXT's with 040's are vaporware until the 040 starts
>shipping in large quantities, so you are forced to compare the
>Amiga3000 with the CUBE. And in price/performance, the Amiga wins.
>An Amiga w/A2024 monitor can easily compare to the NeXT's monchrome
>resolution. Add color toy your NeXT and you just blew your price advantage.
>
	Actually, just for the sake of interest, I read in PC WEEK the
other week (don't ask me which issue :-) that Motorolla IS, in fact,
shipping the '040 in large quanities.... Do with this knowledge as you
wish :-)

>
>Amiga... Its not just a computer, its a RELIGION! All hail the king of
>multimedia since 1985!

	Thorsten Schiller (shadow@watcsc.uwaterloo.ca)