Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!orion.oac.uci.edu!balboa.eng.uci.edu!nguyent From: nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: <2802B910.22818@orion.oac.uci.edu> Date: 10 Apr 91 07:04:48 GMT References: <1991Apr8.142326.28930@grebyn.com> <1991Apr09.034458.5317@ariel.unm.edu> Distribution: comp Organization: University of California, Irvine Lines: 30 Nntp-Posting-Host: balboa.eng.uci.edu In article <1991Apr09.034458.5317@ariel.unm.edu> nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes: > >I was wondering, have you ever sat down on an A3000 with some nice software >on it? ...seen how snappy and responsive it is? Now that I think about it, >I find it quite remarkable that you continue debating the advantages of NeXT >vs the advantages of Amiga with out having ever spent any time on an Amiga. >You seem to be at a tremendous disadvantage since most of the people who >debate this subject here have spent some time on a NeXT. Show me a nice productivity software for A3000 that can match the NeXT stuffs! ProVector and PageStream are quite nice. Haven't see Super Base IV so I can't tell. In the area of spreadsheets Amiga is really weak. Wordprocessing is pretty weak also. Haven't seen a program that uses the Amiga's potentials yet. Amiga's only advantage is in the multimedia stuffs. NeXT is a pretty nice system. I don't know why all the Amiga people are trying to make having Display Postscript sound like something bad to have. It's like when Amiga had multitasking, all the IBM people said that it's needed. Now the Amiga people are doing the same thing. If DP is bad why is C= trying to get CompuGraphic Font support in 2.x??? The slow down is not that noticable. In fact, it runs quite fast even when I have many windows opened on the screen. Also the whole window moves, not just the outline. Try to move the windows on the Amiga, when you have several windows opened --- it slows down noticeably even on A3000 with 2.x. By the way, I have an A3000/25!!!