Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <9x1G.&$h1@cs.psu.edu> Date: 5 Apr 91 23:45:37 GMT References: <49886@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <3&8Ghkzh1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr05.214640.25369@ariel.unm.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 18 In-Reply-To: nwickham@triton.unm.edu's message of 5 Apr 91 21:46:40 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws6.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1991Apr05.214640.25369@ariel.unm.edu> nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes: What will happen when Steve Jobs can no longer pay for software companies to port to NeXT. Will there be enough machines out there to make for a good software market? The single biggest complaint people have about Amiga is that you can't get software for it. What will it by like for NeXT? Gloom and doom. Wonderful, and rather unimportant to this discussion. Snob appeal is a fine thing to market in sports cars or fashion, but you have a problem doing it with computers. Grow up. I am debating the merits of the NeXT vs. the Amiga and Mac. I'm not saying that I'm better than you because... -Mike