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From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: How to beat a NeXT
Keywords: nexts, suck, unexpandible, slow
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Date: 15 Feb 91 05:27:23 GMT
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In article <18988@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <1991Feb13.071047.16549@portia.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>
>>Remember that NeXT helped Moto out quite a bit.  
>
>Really?  In what way?  

I have heard (from a reliable source ;-) that Moto was pretty grateful for 
NeXT's role in debugging the '040; grateful to the point of supplying a bunch
(read: a BUNCH) of chips for free.

>>Well, this is all pretty academic.  We'll never see an '040 A500, and C=
>>will likely have to pay a good deal more than NeXT has for their '040s.
>
>Not necessarily.  You tend to pay based on the volume you need.  If C= does
>get into the '040 machine business, they might buy more '040s than NeXT.
>Anyone who puts one in an A500 at the right price has a real good chance of 
>selling more '040s -- NeXTs are measured in O(10,000) quantity, A500s are 
>measured in O(1,000,000) quantity.

Good point.
I sure hope Moto isn't playing favorites.  I wouldn't think they are the
kind of company that would (unlike Lotus, MiserySoft, Borland, WP, et. al.).

>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"

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