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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.043800.29815@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 13 Feb 91 04:38:00 GMT
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In article <1991Feb8.134256.4811@cc.helsinki.fi> jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
>There is no point in comparing these two machines since 030 NeXT's are
>out of production and the new NeXTs (040) are much cheaper than the old
>ones. 
	Hogwash. That's like saying "Comparing a Ford Escort to a
Volkwagen Beetle is not fair because the Beetle is out of production"
(being an American and overlooking that they are still available outside the
US). What is being compared are two machines that it is possible to own,
and for which there are known speeds and benchmarks.
	It is quite common to compare one computer to another known
computer, even if that computer is no longer in production, if that
computers speed is known and serves as a base for comparing the new machine.
>
>Comparing Amiga 3000UX to old 030 NeXTs for "advertising" purposes is
>simply misleading.
	Not at all. The MAJORITY (and will be for some time) NeXT machine
HAVE an '030. You really think ALL NeXT owners are going to shell out the
cash to:
	a) Buy an entirely new, unexpandable machine
	b) Pay the redicoulus upgrade price for a CPU board alone

	There are still only a FRACTION of NeXT's wordlwide when compared
with Amiga's, and I doubt this will change anytime soon. And from what
I understand (I COULD be wrong, but I doubt it (I'm sure you will tell me if
I am)), there are less than 20,000 NeXT machines OF ALL MODELS worldwide.
IMHO the only reason the NeXT even gets any attention is that the company
is run by Jobs, who, all slander aside, is one of the biggest a--- (you get
the idea) in the industry. To anyone who knew anything about the REAL
Apple company, seeing Jobs get the credit for Apple computer is sickening,
when he had almost NOTHING to do with the technical aspects of the machine,
which if they were lacking, all the marketing in the world wouldn't have helped
back in the 70's.


				Dave