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From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
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Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Date: 8 Apr 91 19:22:47 GMT
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From article <_44G+.pj1@cs.psu.edu>, by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger):
> 
> You don't get any time!!!!!!  We are talking here and now.  Comparing
> next years Amiga with last years NeXT isn't going to mean anything.
> NeXT year we compare the 1992 Amiga with the 1992 NeXT.

Fine, we're comparing a soon-to-be-released 68040 board to an
impossible-to-buy-due-to-backlogging NeXT.  Even your own report says
that.  By the time that a person can go out and buy a next
without living next door to the company, you'll be able to go to your
local Amiga dealer and buy a 68040 card for a 3000/16.  And get a
better response time than a NeXT.
> 
> The Apple IIe has got lots more software too.
> 

Yes, and look at the wide acceptance it gets in school.  Back when I
was in High School, we used them for programming.  That same school
still does, offering many of them in classrooms.  I don't see the time
when a NeXT will be replacing an Apple II, even if they were the same
price.  Given the Apple II and the NeXT, I'd get the apple.  Why?
Because it's got software.  Of course, that's not valid at all,
because for the price of a NeXT, you could get a 10 mhz Apple II, and
wow the education department at any school...  But can you honestly
say that this is education?  No.  Then again, you'll want to use an
Apple II about as much as a NeXT.  The apple II is slow and outdated,
the Next is Slow and low on software...  
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