Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!navas From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <12524@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 6 Apr 91 04:46:32 GMT References: <49886@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <3&8Ghkzh1@cs.psu.edu> <12502@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU Lines: 49 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >I don't think you can just drop a 25MHz 040 board in a 16MHz A3000 and >expect to get the same performance as a system that was designed to >run at 25MHz. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Like I have to ask. If it's done correctly, you can. All of the system chips in the Bus architecture have a dual 25Mhz/16Mhz mode. So *IF* you could unsolder the 16Mhz 68030, you could plop in a 25Mhz 68030 and a crystal and have yourself a 25Mhz system. Any 68040 board can take over those clock signals. I leave it to your imagination for the rest. :) >BTW, $3250 is the price to beat. Okay, I hate to do this, but: $2000 bucks for a 16Mhz version. $1000 *retail* for a 68040 board. About $280 for 4megs in 1x4Meg chips. Like, figure it out... > 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. > >Color, the end all be all of computing. Believe it or not, most of >[ranting about color removed] BUT, I get to choose, don't I? *AND* I get a more responsive system. *AND* I get slots. On an Amiga, I get to choose what I want (a color monitor) and what I don't want (Ethernet). Guess that's why I have an Amiga, not a NeXT... :) >When they actually ship, let me know how much they cost and how they >actually perform in the Amiga. Get back to me in two months -- like about the same time that I could have waited for that NeXT machine... -Dave David Navas navas@cory.berkeley.edu 2.0 :: "You can't have your cake and eat it too." Also try c186br@holden, c260-ay@ara and c184-ap@torus