Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!samsung!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!nuchat!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: How to beat a NeXT Keywords: nexts, suck, unexpandible, slow Message-ID: <1991Feb13.102744.55@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 13 Feb 91 10:27:44 GMT References: <1991Feb12.043247.6171@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Feb12.210216.19479@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Feb13.044829.11371@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 22 > >(100 MB hard drive, plus 68040, in an Amiga 500 expansion card? For $1500? > > In your dreams maybe...) > Remember, I'm assuming that Commodore could > purchase the 040's for the same price/priveleges NeXT gets, and > that the A500 slab woul be highly integrated to all this hardware > like the A3000 is. Be cheaper to make an A3000 slab. I was assuming you were talking about upgrading the A500 to NeXT levels. That means a self-powered expansion box. For $1500? No way. > Your answer to every NeXt gripe seems to be 'Well if the NeXT can't do > this, you may as well buy a RISC box.' No, just being rational about the cost-benefit tradeoffs. The A3000UX is competing at the very low-end of workstations. Once you start putting substantial hardware in there you *are* competing against RISC boxes, and they have a serious performance advantage. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .