Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!uh2 From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: <91042.123006UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: 11 Feb 91 17:30:06 GMT References: <1991Feb04.161126.8475@convex.com> <1991Feb7.151106.4795@cc.helsinki.fi> <32530@auc.UUCP> <1991Feb10.010110.11187@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Penn State University Lines: 36 In article <1991Feb10.010110.11187@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) says: > >I can see two possible answers: > > 1) Commodore does not have all its eggs in one basket, and > so is more likely to exist down the road a ways. > > 2) The A3000UX has slots, which the equivalent NeXT doesn't. > A good reason #3 might be 3) The organization making the decision already has a committment to other Amiga hardware and software. or how about 4) The organization requires ATT Unix, no substitutions allowed or 5) X and Open Look are already heavily used in the organizations environment. NOTICE that these are mostly environment and integration issues. Not more basic my-machine-is-better-than-yours arguments. In the abstract, the NeXT (today) is a better bang for the buck than the Amiga (today). It is all that non-abstract stuff that really makes the difference. My problem is that I need speech recognition, and cannot get it (today) from either N or A. >Point one might be valid, but what would one put in the A3000UX that >one doesn't get standard on the NeXT? Is there actually an application >for the slots in the A3000 with UNIX (which wipes out things like the >Video Toaster)? >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >.