Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!kessner!david From: david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner) Subject: Re: NeXT vs. Amiga 3000UX? (was Re: Amiga 3000UX, X, ...) Message-ID: <1991Mar19.222210.11393@kessner.denver.co.us> Reply-To: david@kessner.denver.co.us (David D. Kessner) Organization: Kessner, Inc References: <1426@amix.commodore.com> <1991Mar19.003209.6819@kessner.denver.co.us> <1991Mar19.184812.4218@cs.umn.edu> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 91 22:22:10 GMT In article <1991Mar19.184812.4218@cs.umn.edu> brsmith@cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith) writes: >>I am at the point where I'd find the extra money to buy a >>SPARC/NEXT/486 rather than getting a A3000UX-- but I think I'm just >>used to the higher performance of these machines (ie, I'm spoiled)... > >EXTRA money? Educational prices: > NeXTstation with 105meg disk, 8meg ram, floppy: $3,221 > (Through U of MN bookstore.) > Amiga 3000/UXB - 100meg disk, 4meg ram, (floppy?): $4,003 Sorry. I was thinking more along the lines of a A3000UX compared to a SPARC Clone. Using non-educational pricing: approx $7000 for 8meg, 200meg HD A3000UX vs approx $8000-9000 for a SPARC (8 meg, 200 meg HD, ethernet, and 16" 1280x1024x256 display). I do not consider the A3000UXB an option. It's 4 meg RAM and 100 meg HD is not large enough for any real work. Keep in ming that it takes 15-20 meg just to build EMACS (which has 10 meg of source code)! Unix and X itself takes about 60meg of the hard drive, and then there are the manuals... Also, the A3000 and the next use the 030-- which is too slow. (I think that was the 030 NeXT you mentioned above.) >Ok - maybe it's an apples and oranges comparison. But, being somewhat >poor, those are THE low-end Unix workstations available to me. (No, I >don't consider {3,4}86 based ex-DOS machines worth the bother.) I >can't help but WISH that either NeXT would get off their horse and use >X, or that Commodore would up the default memory to 8meg and offer a >humongous grayscale monitor without the extra $$$.... Hmmm. UNIX on a 386 is vrey nice-- except X on a VGA display is slow. But 34010 boards are in the less than $1000 range, and there are some at $600! This makes then much more attractive... >Brian (Yet another lost soul looking to dump an Apple IIgs.) Hey, I have a VIC-20 here! Anyone looking for a VIC-20? - David K -- David Kessner - david@kessner.denver.co.us | do { 1135 Fairfax, Denver CO 80220 (303) 377-1801 (p.m.) | . . . If you cant flame MS-DOS, who can you flame? | } while( jones);