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From: jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.194520.5865@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 6 Apr 91 19:45:20 GMT
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In article <14026@helios.TAMU.EDU>, dlb5404@tamuts.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
> In article <2o7G!rpe1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>>
>>Retail: $4995 for NeXTstation  -- edu: around $3250
>>        $7995 for NeXTstation color -- edu: around $5500
>>...
>>
>>   3) Exactly what makes it soo cool?
>>
>>Interface Builder.
>>DSP for CD quaility sound.
> 
> Yeah...wait until you try to do some heavy disk activity while playing
> a score file on that DSP....  The DSP requires the *CPU* to feed it
> the sound data; it can't go get it on its own.  

Uhh? Quite a hopeless argument here. So, you think NeXT's would be
better if they didn't have the DSP at all? 

> 
> --Daryl Biberdorf,  dlb5404@{tamuts,rigel}.tamu.edu
>   Texas A&M University

		Jouni Alkio, Helsinki, Finland