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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Date: 5 Apr 91 19:36:06 GMT
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In article <3&8Ghkzh1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>In article <49886@nigel.ee.udel.edu> fhwri%CONNCOLL.BITNET@yalevm.ycc.yale.edu writes:
>>   105 MB hard drive, which gives you > about 30 megs free.
>
>How much disk space do you have free when you buy a 40MB hard drive
>after the system software is loaded onto it?

Well, they're shipping 50meg Quantums, but to answer your question, think about
what you just asked.  The Amiga's system software comes on *three* *880k*
disks.  A little rounding (for those of us up all night :) ), tells me
I'd have > 37megs left.  A rather substantial difference as AmigaDos won't be
paging madly to that drive either.

So go buy yourself a 16Mhz A3000, add a 25Mhz 68040 board, add 6megs of RAM --
for educational pricing I get practically the *same* cost.  I don't have
retail pricing, but I bet it would allow for a decent monitor in that case...

So for the price of a color monitor I get a color system.  With slots, even.

Like, excuse me, where's the price advantage?  I get a more responsive system,
more harddrive, and *way* more usage of my memory than you would -- and the
difference in price depends on the monitor that I can buy.  And I *can* buy
a color monitor.

Somebody's been passing around that thing folks have been smoking recently...

>Stupid reasoning.  Very stupid!  It's not the quantity it's the
>quality of software.

Ah, redemption. :)
Darn right it is -- and the NeXT has some very interesting software.

>if you are going to spend $3300 ($5000 retail) on a computer, then the NeXT
>is (arguably) the best buy one can get for their money.

Not when I can get an '040 for a 16Mhz Amiga it isn't.  Some other line of
reasoning is going to have to be used.

>-Mike

?TXeN


David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
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