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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1991 00:49:37 GMT

In article <e0aG2veg1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>Better than the A3000 for what?  The A3000 is going to be better than
>a NeXTStation for video, and multimedia in general.  You have to buy a
>Cube and the NeXTDimension Board for this, and that's going to cost
>you $10,000.  But for a lot of the users do, the NeXT is better.  DTP,
>spreadsheets, etc, and it has more horsepower in the 68040 to do these

	I will grant you spreadsheets (that is if Improv is
finally shipping), but the Amiga has very good DTP as well, and
I've heard enormous complaints about the Mac Framemaker. As to
the 040, you and I both know it'll be out for Amigas and Macs
RSN.

>things.  The DSP provides great sound, and the 17" monitor looks great

	For those people who need the high-quality sound (that is
better than 8-bit/28K/sec) they will probably have a MIDI setup
and won't be using the computer for any sound production. The
Amiga's sound is good enough for background effects (and for
everything if we aren't talking truly professional quality). As
well there are 2-3 16bit cards now on the Amiga market.

>and it's a boon to productivity.  You can run X and an IBM PC in a
>window for compatibility.

	Gee, you can do that on an Amiga as well! What a
coincidence.

>I haven't seen Amiga DOS 2.0, but 1.3
>didn't look so hot.  How do you drag a window part way off screen?

	You are right. 1.3 doesn't look so hot. 2.0 does. Under
2.0 you can tell it to make the screen any size up to 32Kx32K,
depending on available chip ram, and your window can be on-screen
and off screen into that extra space.

>More importantly, to the software average user, a lot of great
>software is becoming available.  Think about this.  If graphics power
>is so important, why does everyone by Macs and PCs?
>
	There is a lot of great software in the Amiga markets as
well. Advantage is a good spreadsheet program. We now have
SuperBase 4 which is a successful IBM world product, as well as
dbMAN V which is a dBASE III+ compat. program with extensions.
How does the NeXT software stack up? There is Improv. What else?

>-Mike
>
>


	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.