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From: hal@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Aaron Harsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4
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Date: 10 Feb 91 05:20:50 GMT
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In article <1991Feb9.072054.24527@en.ecn.purdue.edu> doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey W Davis) writes:
>In article <1519@pdxgate.UUCP> hal@eecs.UUCP (Aaron Harsh) writes:
>>  The NeXTstation has no color and no expansion [slots] available.  But
>>looking through Amiga World (yeah so what if I read it, Amigas still suck :-)
>>all the expansion cards I see fall into three categories:
>That is pretty harsh.  Stating that Amigas suck in an Amiga forum shows
>a lack of knowledge/intelligence and really damages your credibility.

  Christ.  Didn't you see the :-)?  Thinking that people who put
smileys at the end of their statements are being serious show a lack of
knowledge/intellegence and really damages you credibility.  This is
c.s.a.advocacy, anyway.
  As a matter of fact, I like Amigas a lot.  Yesterday I recommended that
someone buy one.

>>  You probably haven't played with one of the new NeXTs.  They're speeded
>>up a lot.  You can even format disks while you're downloading a file :-)
>>I've had Mandelbrot, Digital Webster, and Writenow running at the same time
>>without slowing down the Writenow window.
>You obviously haven't 'speeded' to your English classes either!

  Settle down.  This is c.s.a.a, not alt.flame.

>So what!  The Amiga has always been able to format a disk while running  a
>terminal program and downloading a file.

  :-) :-) :-)

>No problem.  Again, do you believe that the processor in the NeXT is doing
>MORE than the same processor in an Amiga?

  If the custom designed I/O processors on the NeXT do a better job than
the processors on the Amiga, then yes.

>And designing a graphical
>interface is very easily done.  In fact I use a program that writes them
>FOR me.  How does a few MINUTES sound?

  Have you seen Interface Builder for the NeXT?  I have an advantage here:
I've used Amiga 3000's and NeXTs.  I also say the development environment
on a NeXT is better.  I don't think that anyone that has developed an
application on both would disagree.

Aaron Harsh
hal@eecs.cs.pdx.edu