Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better Message-ID: <20327@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 3 Apr 91 18:07:00 GMT References: <.$2G0ysf1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr3.051014.5474@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Apr3.082443.12888@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <*68Gc&.f1@cs.psu.edu> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Distribution: usa Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 25 In article <*68Gc&.f1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >Keep in mind that the NeXT is more than an 040. The Amiga still >doesn't have virtual memory(even Macs have this) or memory protection. Sure it does, just run Amiga UNIX. You get all that, and the standard AT&T/ Motorola 680x0 UNIX ABI. NeXT OS doesn't have the architectural speed of the AmigaOS. With an '30 or '040 based Amiga, you have your choice. And you can even get a place for add-in cards in that $4000 system. >The Amiga is a nice machine, but the market is heating up and >consumers educated enough to know the better machine by looking at >spec. sheet. Actually, the spec sheet is about as useful as basing a decision strictly on advertisements, since that's basically what it is. You base your decision for a new computer on what you want to do with it, both now and in the future. >-Mike -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight" -R.E.M.