Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!jtr From: jtr@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Jim Reinhart) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times? Message-ID: <1991Apr29.144421.19819@oakhill.sps.mot.com> Date: 29 Apr 91 14:44:21 GMT References: <11399@uwm.edu> Reply-To: jtr@oakhill.UUCP (Jim Reinhart) Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin, Texas Lines: 22 In article peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes: >In article <11399@uwm.edu>, jonas@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Jonas K Manske) writes: >> I am just wondering,..... I am considering buying one, it has a few nice >> features that interest me, but then again so does the Amiga. The Amiga >> has a big problem in that it gets little coverage. I don't want a UNIX >> workstation like that.... > >The NeXT and the Amiga 3000UX have the same problem here: they're 68000 >based, so you won't expect any outstanding improvements in the next few >years. Even if NeXT and Commodore make like Sun and switch to RISC processors STUFF DELETED. >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com >+1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?" Gargage. What exactly qualifies as "outstanding" and what do you know about the price/performance curve of 68xxx machines to make this assertion? -- Regards, Jim Reinhart Motorola Microprocessor Products Group Austin, Texas