Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!unf7!tlvx!sysop From: sysop@tlvx.UUCP (SysOp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Summary: Gee, I thought it was c.s.amiga.advocacy... Message-ID: <476@tlvx.UUCP> Date: 27 Apr 91 18:58:25 GMT References: <.=2Gtyju1@cs.psu.edu> Organization: Temporal Vortex BBS of Jacksonville, Florida Lines: 56 In article , melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > > In article judge@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us (rory toma) writes: > > Which I'm sure has it's place in another newsgroup. Get a life. Read the > title of this newsgroup. It has AMIGA in it. Does it say NeXT? Can you > read? > > rory > > It is also advocacy. Quite a pretentious name. You guys have a dozen > other newgroups in which to get some work done. Here you must defend > the Amiga. Right! Then why was this fellow replying to a post that objected to the comparison of an Amiga to a NeXT? The post rory replied to sounded to me like it was griping about the suggestion that Amiga be mentioned, that the thread was between Sparc and NeXT? Weird.... ;-) > Was this newgroup formed before the latest Amiga killing > NeXT was released? I bet that you thought you were going to beat up Oh yes, I'll run out and buy a NeXT right now! (not ;-) Seriously, I'm thinking about getting another machine (as I've posted before). I'd love to hear all suggestions. Please explain why the NeXT is going to "kill" the Amiga. BTW, my price range is around $2500, and I am not taking classes, so I can't have the educational pricing. I don't need UNIX, and I would like a color monitor. :-) (From what I recall, this amounts to around $7000 for the "low end" NeXT, which admittedly is in the same ballpark as what an Amiga 3000 UX would be, but it's hardly going to kill off the Amiga line, since most Amiga owners won't be buying a 3000 UX.) Sounds like NeXT is out of the picture, for me. Not even in the race. :-) If I were interested in a UNIX machine, I have more choices than Amiga or NeXT. What do y'all think about the Aviion or machines based on other architectures? Other than people who are interested in buying a UNIX machine, the NeXT will have no effect; calling the NeXT "Amiga killing" is ludicrous. If anything will kill the Amiga it's the onslaught of cheap clones (which could kill the NeXT, given that you can put UNIX on them). > on Atari TT owners. (If you really want to know why this group was created, you should have read some of the threads started by posts by M.B. :-) It would be incorrect to think that Amiga owners aren't willing to examine possibilities. I would think most have owned (or do own) other machines. Maybe some people just prefer an Amiga. :-) (Not a terrible thing to have happen. ;-) Then again, maybe you're afraid to challenge owners of other UNIX machines or perhaps the clones? ;-) (Hmm, that might be interesting, to cross- post the NeXT vs. Sparc discussions to the other appropriate newsgroups...) > > -Mike -- Gary Wolfe, SYSOP of the Temporal Vortex BBS // Amiga! ..uflorida!unf7!tlvx!sysop, unf7!tlvx!sysop@bikini.cis.ufl.edu \X/ Yeah!