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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: AMIGA
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Date: 4 May 91 21:24:45 GMT
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In article <1991Jan10.151816.13893@rice.edu> jsd@pygmy.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube) writes:

   First, I was the not the one who started comparing NeXT and Amigas.
   Second, The NeXT is not a multiuser workstation.  It may have mutli-tasking
   but I don't think many places are using it as a "multiuser" workstation.

What do you mean by multiuser?  In our lab, we have sometimes have 2-3
people on the server.  Everyone goes for the machine with 16MB of RAM.


    Third, compared to a Sparc, it loses but only when it comes to
    speed.  I Sparc doesn't have all of the support hardware that the
    NeXT has (for example, the digital signal processor or whatever
    its called).  Also, the NeXT has a better user interface (compared
    to a Sun w/ XWindows or SunTools) and it costs less.

WRONG!!!  The 040 NeXT is comparable the the SPARC 1+ in speed.  Which
is one of the the reasons that I'm doing my class project on it.  The
other reason is that Sun doesn't believe in shipping an ANSC C
compiler with their machine.  (i.e. No function prototypes)


-Mike