Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <1991Apr4.185844.13741@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 4 Apr 91 18:58:44 GMT References: <7-aGv&kf1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr3.112104.6657@infonode.ingr.com> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 48 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <1991Apr3.112104.6657@infonode.ingr.com> hychejw@infonode.ingr.com (Jeff W. Hyche) writes: > > >BTW: The NeXTstation is faster than the SPARC IPC. > > How many of you feel that someone here is trying to shove a NeXT > down your trought? > >Nah, just stating a fact. > > I think the next question to ask is who is gonna buy a NeXT and > who is gonna buy an Amiga 3000. > My next big purchase is going to be an Amiga 3000 for multimedia > work. Now lets talk real uses, what can I do with an NeXTstation. If > you can convince me that it is better than a A3000 I will buy it. > > >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 >things. The DSP provides great sound, and the 17" monitor looks great >and it's a boon to productivity. You can run X and an IBM PC in a >window for compatibility. 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? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 3 years old (: Gently place one hand on the mouse (or for those of you who need to use two hands, feel free). Place the mouse pointer over the horizontal bar at the screen top. Gently depress the left mouse button with the appropriate finger...and HOLD ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, drag Drag DRAG the screen downwards nd watch the screen/window smoothly slide off the screen! David >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? > >-Mike -- David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481 AMIGA DDD-MEN -- Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :)