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From: jsd@pygmy.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube)
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Subject: Re: AMIGA
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Date: 10 Jan 91 15:18:16 GMT
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In article <1991Jan10.095304.16900@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
|> >
|> >|> 
|> >|> DREAM ON. NOTHING BEATS THE AMIGA. NOTHING! NeXT? It doesn't cook
|> >|> spaghetti so it's no good! 
|> >
|> >That`s the worst you can say about the NeXT????
|> >
|> 
|>  Ok, its slow (030 & Display Postscript) colorless (with $$$) and
|> doesn't have any games.  Why compare Next with the Amiga, the
|> Amiga is low-end (majority) and a PC. The NeXT is a multiuser workstation,
|> and compared to a Sun Sparc, it loses. I would buy a Sun before
|> I bought the NeXT.
|> 

First, I was the not the one who started comparing NeXT and Amigas.
Second, The NeXT is not a multiuser workstation.  It may have mutli-tasking
but I don't think many places are using it as a "multiuser" workstation.
Third, compared to a Sparc, it loses but only when it comes to speed.  I Sparc
doesn't have all of the support hardware that the NeXT has (for example, the
digital signal processor or whatever its called).  Also, the NeXT has a better
user interface (compared to a Sun w/ XWindows or SunTools) and it costs less.

|> >|> Seriously. NeXT's with 040's are vaporware until the 040 starts
|> >|> shipping in large quantities
|> >
|> >By that your saying that it is the 040 that is vaporware.  The reason
|> >that the NeXT 040 are not shipping in large quantities is because Motorola
|> >isn't shipping the 040's in high quantity thereby, from what you say,
|> >making the 040 vaporware.  The 050 is vaporware, the 040 is not.
|> 
|>  Its vapor because you cannot reliaby get your hands on any. I can
|> buy an Amiga very easy, it make takes weeks or months to ge an Amiga.
                                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                            An Amiga is reliaby available
                                            although it can take months to get??

Seriously, take a poll and I think that just about everyone WILL NOT consider
the NeXT 040 vaporware, esp. the people who have them. 

|> 
|> GET REAL! GET AN AMIGA!
|> >-- 

Get real yourself and consider the merits of *ALL* computers
and not just yours.  

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