Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better In-Reply-To: rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu's message of Wed, 3 Apr 91 08:38:45 GMT Message-ID: Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu Organization: Penn State Computer Science References: <.$2G0ysf1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr3.045757.24803@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Apr3.083845.13479@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 3 Apr 91 09:23:16 GMT Lines: 33 In article <1991Apr3.083845.13479@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: No the Toaster is not being made for the Mac, you have to buy an Amiga+Toaster+Parallel/Serial connection to use it. NeXTDimension is way to expensive considering the other boards availible now adays. It won't give you the same NTSC Video ability that the toaster does either. If the Toaster only worked in the A3000... NeXTDimension will have NTSC output. I would think that it is comparable the the Toaster. It should be, it costs $4000. People buy Amigas. For Video, Audio and Games. What Niche does the NeXT occuply? None at the moment, which could be a problem. I think it has a chance of taking a piece of the DTP market and, with the NeXTDimension board, part of the video market. Commodore has been around since the early 80's/late 70's. I even remember an old Commodore 'brick' calculator they sold. They had bad years, but they pulled through to produce the most sucessfl home computer ever created. (C64). Now they produce one of the best multitasking PC's money can buy. NeXT's are ok, but the RISC workstations are just so much better in terms of performance. It's price/performance, and the NeXT is still competitive. It's a 15 mip, 2.5 MFLOP machine for $5000($3250 educational) plus..., well you know what else you get. -Mike