Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better Message-ID: <1991Apr4.021851.14849@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 4 Apr 91 02:18:51 GMT References: <1991Apr3.083845.13479@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Distribution: usa Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 34 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <1991Apr3.083845.13479@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes: > > >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 Lets see now... the Next has had a 68040 for about five months now... AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! Tell me it's not true!! Human beings have been on the planet Earth for aproximately 2 million years. The Next 68040 has been around for bout one half of a year. That is about 0.00000025% of the span of history tha you have to be proud of! (The Amiga has 0.000003% of our existance, which is much higher than that weenie slice the Next has.... :) David :) -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN -- Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :) -- Looking to buy a used 68000 CPU and 1.3 Kickstart