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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: AMIGA
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In article <17564@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:

   While a DSP is a nice idea, I think the NeXT would have been far better off
   with a video accelerator from the start.  There are all kinds of fast and
   cheap processors out there, the kind of things you find in laser printers,

Look at the printer benchmarks in comp.benchmarks.  The NeXT
printer(the NeXT itself) faired quite well.

   that would have made far more impact for the same price than the DSP.  
   Especially a DSP that can't be used for mathematics; something most 
   Workstations just about require these days is at least 1.5-2 MFLOPS or better.

Dave!  I didn't expect you to make such a big mistake!  Aren't you an
engineer?  The NeXT does at least 2.5MFLOPS.


   Of course its not NeXT's problem.  That doesn't eliminate the problem.  If you
   need a computer today, you don't buy a NeXTStation.

Of course you do, the NeXT is the hottest thing to hit the market
since the original Amiga.  There's a new bad boy on the block, move
over Amiga.

-Mike