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From: doctorj@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Jeffrey W Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4
Message-ID: <1991Feb10.071140.18839@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 91 07:11:40 GMT
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In article <1530@pdxgate.UUCP> hal@eecs.UUCP (Aaron Harsh) writes:
>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.
>
I appologize for that.  I never really noticed that the :-) was supposed to
be a smiley face.  I assumed that it was some weird way of closing an aside
statement.  I was in a fairly off mood when I posted that response.

>>>  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.
>
This statement is also whole hartedly retracted!

>>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.
>
I will agree with this point IF the I/O processors on the NeXT do a better
job.

>>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
I haven't seen Interface Builder for the NeXT.  As far as which machine
is a better development environment, I really never said that EITHER
machine was BETTER than the other.  I am quite satisfied with the
development environment that I have set up for myself on the Amiga.  I can
create the applications that I envision with little effort and what else is
there?  Maybe the NeXT development environment is better :-) but can it
develop Amiga programs better?

Now let's lock horns! :-)  <-- There... point well taken!
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