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From: eww@engr.ucf.edu (Mr. Eric W. Wampner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
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Date: 15 Apr 91 03:52:42 GMT
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In article <10956@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>From article <b1oN02Tl06q701@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, by kls30@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Kent L Shephard):
<One user says single user cli based is something?>
>
<Another user doesn't believe him, wants benchmarks, etc>
>
<And they get kind of abusive too.>

Well, all of this seems to be about Display Postscript, right, well,
I probably shouldn't spout off, but I think I am qualified to speak,
got amiga 1000 and work on a couple of 040 NeXTs.

Of course, it really isn't a fair comparison at all, since one is 
designed for one console and multiply tty users, different display
types, the incongruities of unix, etc and has a much more powerfull
processor than any ami i know of yet.

The other one is designed for one particular type of display, and
a single user, a streamlined, small os, and multiple task
specific chips.

I don't think you all have really got it through your minds, diffrent
needs beget different breeds. A comparison must have some referent.
You are comparing the display types designed with different methodologies,
one for really fast adequately colored graphics which do not tie
down the processor to bad. The other for excellent graphcis with 
some speed traded off against the idea of display independant graphics.

I think the NeXTs are great fun, but sometimes I do battle with NeXTinfo
other times I have to put up with high system overhead. And of course,
HUGE file size, I would hate to have to live in 100mb. My amiga 1000
occasionally annoys me with its memory (only 2.5 mb), slow speed,
but I get by with the low mem and only a 20mb drive.

I like both, Digital Webster, Stealth, F/A 18, Empire, Scribble!

I like my amiga at home, wouldn't want a NeXT, and while I might
contemplate a 3000UX, I think I would rather have a NeXT at work.

Eric Wampner                 Disclaimer: Not paid for ideas.
eww@engr.ucf.edu