Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!hsdndev!rice!pygmy.rice.edu!jsd
From: jsd@pygmy.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.171159.9624@rice.edu>
Date: 11 Jan 91 17:11:59 GMT
References: <1991Jan10.194127.20625@rice.edu> <1991Jan10.082327.7378@rice.edu> <1991Jan10.095304.16900@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991J <1991Jan11.145423.21377@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
Sender: news@rice.edu (News)
Reply-To: jsd@pygmy.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Rice University
Lines: 32

In article <1991Jan11.145423.21377@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic) writes:
|> >
|> >|> The NeXT (slab) is not very expandible.
|> >
|> >And the 500 is?
|> 
|> How can you compare a 500 to a machine that costs a few thousand dollars?
|> Compare the NeXT slab to a A3000, the A3000 is very expandible. Will the
|> expandible NeXT cost $10,000? Your comparison does not make sense.
|> 

The slab and the 500 have two things in common, they are both entry
level machines (in a manner of speaking).  Both the 500 and the
slab were not made to be *internnaly* expandable.  This allows
the price of the machines to be lower than that of the 2000 and the cube
respectively.  

Its not like NeXT screw-up in designing the machines.

NeXT engineer: "Well, we finished designing the slab."
Steve Jobs:    "Can it be expanded internnaly?"
NeXT engineer: "Opps! I guess not."
Steve Jobs:    "You dumb-ass.  Well, we'll have to ship them anyway."


-- 
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
r     ___     _              "...but then there was the         r
r    /__     | \              possibility that they were        r
r   ___/hawn |__\ube          LaRouche democrats which, of      r
r  jsd@owlnet.rice.edu        course, were better off dead."    r
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr