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From: nguyent@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Thien Nguyen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <2802BAE5.23085@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 10 Apr 91 07:12:37 GMT
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In article <472@tlvx.UUCP> sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp) writes:
>(Hmm, and I thought the NeXT "discussions" were gone. :-)
>
>In article <2o7G!rpe1@cs.psu.edu>, melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>> The guy in the store couldn't tell me a thing about the machine.  The
>> Amiga just sat their with a dozen other IBM compatibles(which the guy
>> could tell me a little about -- the pervasive feeling in the world is
>> you can't go wrong with MS DOS).
>
>Well, if I ever get a clone, it'll be because I was dragged kicking and
>screaming.  :-)  With almost no Amiga support locally, and the MS-DOS
>shelves full, it can get a bit depressing for an Amiga owner here in Jax.
>
>[...]
>
>I'm seriously tempted to get a 33MHz 386.  Please, someone explain why
>I shouldn't!  :-)  (Seriously, e-mail is fine, if you think this'll turn
>into a clone vs. Amiga war. :-)
>--


By the way, you can get an 33MhZ 486 with Super VGA and 105 Meg for around 
$3000 to $4000.  The new windows stuffs that are coming out are awsome.
Page Maker 4.0 running on 1024 * 768 with 256 colors is really fast on the
486.