Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!tm2b+ From: tm2b+@andrew.cmu.edu (Todd L. Masco) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: Date: 1 Apr 91 03:31:35 GMT Organization: Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 33 This flamage is getting extremely tiresome. The NeXT is a worthwhile machine for some purposes. It has its weaknesses. The Amiga is a worthwhile machine for some purposes. It has its weaknesses. Both have strengths and weaknesses that are of varying importance to each potential user -- and the two are really the cutting-edge low-end workstation models in existence right now. For example: in my house, we have a Sun3 routing SLIP to the internet, a NeXTStation and an Amiga. The Amiga and the NeXT are connected via a serial cable. I find the amiga to provide more usefulness per dollar than a NeXTStation would -- I like some of the buzzers and whistles, I really like the OS (I don't care about multi-/single- user), and I don't want to deal with a machine that has to always be on, generating noise and sucking power; One of my house mates (the one who has the NeXT) find the NeXT to be more useful to him: he wants a powerful multi-user MACH (BSDish) environment, and doesn't care about the noise (he shouldn't; there's a Sun2 next to it). Arguing about which computer is "better" is simply stupid. People have different needs, and there's no reason that the Amiga and the NeXT can't (gasp) coexist -- and I say this as a person with on-demand access to each [With maple on the Amiga (CMU has a site license), and Mathematica on the NeXT]. -- Todd Masco | tm2b@andrew.cmu.edu | "Tax the churches. CMU Physics | tm2b@andrew.BITNet | Tax the businesses owned by the churches."