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From: glmwc@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Matt Crowd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A3000UX at UniForum?
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.091223.19414@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 12 Feb 91 09:12:23 GMT
References: <1991Feb6.141218.11094@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Feb6.193608.17592@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Feb10.021744.6463@NCoast.ORG>
Organization: James Cook University of North Queensland
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In article <1991Feb10.021744.6463@NCoast.ORG> davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes:
>	I find it funny that not one person I know who I would consider
>even slightly above normal in computer literacy is interested in the NeXT,
>and most of the people that I know who were considering it changed their
>minds when they found out about the upgrade prices, non-standard Unix,
>slow display speed, using the host CPU to do the job of the printer,
>lack of expandability, and lack of total machines sold. I mean come on,
>there are only just over 15,000 NeXTs (of all models) in the US. What
>kind of market is that?
>

Well I know a lot about computers, I certainly am more interested in
the NeXT than the 3000UX.  It is faster, has a nice UNIX (even if
non-standard at least there are some applications already), and
has a display totally IMHO much nicer than OpenLook.  The NeXT
will be faster at present than the 3000UX even after the overhead
of display postscript.  3rd party products always usually make machines
that are not designed for extra expansion, more expandible (eg. Amiga
500!!).  At present there are no available 040 Amigas, so the point
of comparing vapourware to something people can buy, bores me.

And I own an Amiga, and like it!  As for lack of machines sold...
just how many of the 2 million Amigas sold, have been sold in the
US?  Figures anyone?

Colin Adams