Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!gatech!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 06:39:33 GMT References: <1991Apr3.033827.1716@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <.$2G0ysf1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr3.051014.5474@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Distribution: usa Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 50 In-Reply-To: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of Wed, 3 Apr 91 05:10:14 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1991Apr3.051014.5474@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: How can you send fax without a modem or ethernet? Sure NeXT has an ethernet port, buthow many people can afford an Internet connection? Voice-Mail from one NeXT to Another in the same computer lab is about as useful as making a telephone call from your bedroom to your basement. It works great acrossed campus. I'm not sure how many Fortune 500 companies are using ethernet? Voice mail will work through a modem. It's just a compress'ed tar file. And I guess you'd have to buy a fax machine to send faxes. Fax machines are pretty common, ya know. I thought you speed wasn't important? First you say your Amiga2500 was slow (an 030 running AmigaDOS slow? Doubtful), then you say speed isn't important, now your saying NeXT machines (030) didn't sell because they were slow? Which is it? It was refering to Toolbook, not the A2500. Reread my posting. My point was Toolbook is incredibly slow, and the people where I work would rather spend their time developing in it then the Amiga which looks a helluva lot more impressive. No one uses the loaner A2500. It will leave here untouch except for a few demos. Damn shame. How? NeXT's in business/home use? Not bloody likely. You say Amiga's are game machines? Oh well, this fact alone guarantees that C= will be around alot longer than NeXT. the C64 market hasn't even died down yet. Commodore sold a few hundred thousand C64's last year which is more than the total number of NeXT's world wide. The C64 may have been a game machine, but a large number of people still used it to do work. I used it to do all my word processing. Many people I know ran BBSs on them, programmed, published, and played games. I can still run more software on my C64 than you could ever hope to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ run on your NeXT. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ How old are you? So what? It's what runs on your machine, not how much software is available. Come on, think about this. By the way, if you run acrossed any software that says "Cracked courtesy of the Condor", that was me. I'll let you figure out why Commodore sold more C64's than NeXT sold NeXT computers. NeXT isn't going anywhere. There will be 040's out for Amigas and Macs this year. Great statement. The big question is: "How much will they cost?" -Mike