Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!brahms.udel.edu!don From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better Message-ID: <16844@chopin.udel.edu> Date: 3 Apr 91 16:29:18 GMT References: <1991Apr3.083845.13479@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 41 melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >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. It costs $4000 plus the price of a Cube, not the $3250 slab you keep mentioning. You can't plug it into the two pizza-box models. The Toaster will work in A3000's if they you leave the cover off and swap out one of the coprocessors (forget which one) & replace it with its pre-3000 counterpart. Rest assured that the Toaster will be 3000ized eventually. > >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. > I remember someone on the net talking about Framemaker, the big NeXT DTP package. It cost something like $700, if I remember correctly, and a bug fix for it was an additional $500. PageStream on the Amiga costs ~$180 by mail, and a major upgrade from v1.8 to v2.1 only cost me $75. This kind of thing is where the NeXT's apparent price advantage disappears, and is one of the reasons I chose the A3000 over a NeXT slab (not that I'd mind having one around :-). >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. > You get no color, no expansion slots, expensive software, and a long wait before you actually get the machine.... Although this post sounds fairly anti-NeXT, I really do like a lot of the machine's features (esp. that little 68040 feature :-), and I hope it's successful at sucking away a little of the MS-DOS/Mac market; I don't think, though, that it's going to kill the Amiga, any more than Ami has killed the Mac. -- Gibberish May the Publications Editor, AmigaNetwork is spoken fork() be Contact don@brahms.udel.edu for more information. here. with you. DISCLAIMER: It's all YOUR fault.