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From: jwwalden@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Darc Tangent)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT vs. Amiga 3000UX?
Message-ID: <4335.27e79c35@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 22:30:29 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.051407.4163@kessner.denver.co.us> <1426@amix.commodore.com> <1991Mar19.003209.6819@kessner.denver.co.us> <1991Mar19.184812.4218@cs.umn.edu>
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In article <1991Mar19.184812.4218@cs.umn.edu>, brsmith@cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith) writes:
> In <1991Mar19.003209.6819@kessner.denver.co.us> david@kessner.denver.co.us (David Kessner) writes:
> 
> 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

Well, I would list the hard drives as the same size since both machines use the
same Quantum drive and I would list the UXB at 5 megs RAM since you can use
chip RAM.  Of course, RAM prices are such that the difference in RAM sizes is
ignorable.

While the NeXTStation's 68040 is very nice, I wouldn't buy one because of the
lack of expandability (zero slots compared to the Amiga's four) and because I
do not like the NeXT as a development system from my two year's experience
with them; however, I have no experience with the A3000UXB so I don't know that
it would be better, but I do like my AmigaOS development system much better
than the NeXT's.

> Brian  (Yet another lost soul looking to dump an Apple IIgs.)

Ah, I remember having that problem :-).  Good luck.

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