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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: AMIGA
In-Reply-To: ko0m+@andrew.cmu.edu's message of 11 Jan 91 17:48:55 GMT
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In article <MbXTe7S00io8IFr1A0@andrew.cmu.edu> ko0m+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kevin Richard O'Toole) writes:

   Oh goody, more NeXT/Amiga haggling.  Well, I own an Amiga, and I work
   with NeXT 040's.  I only have a 2000 at home, with a dinky 1 meg of
   memory and no hard disk.  Guess what?  I still feel it responds faster
   in many situations than the NeXT.  Not all mind you, but switching from
   one application to another, or launching a second application while the
   first one is thinking about something still seems more refined on the
   Amiga with floppies than the NeXT with a hard disk.

How much memory do you have?  16MB makes the machine more responsive.
Let's see some Amigoid twist this into meaning that the machine is
unusable with 8MB of RAM.

   The NeXT is a nice machine with some spiffy graphics, but they slow down
   the machine too much.  Also, will people please stop moaning about the
   interlace flicker?  Just buy a little better monitor and you'll be fine.
    Yes the flicker is annoying on the older Ami's, but if things are set
   up properly it is very tolerable.

Just buy more RAM for your NeXT.  It's cheaper than a better Amiga
monitor.

   I have only played with 2.0 on the Amiga for a few minutes at a local
   store and I wasn't impressed.   I didn't really get to see it do that
   much, and it appears to be a major step up over 1.3, but I was
   disappointed.  To be honest however, I like 1.3 better than the
   interface on the NeXT.  (That one is going to cause trouble, I can feel

Hahahahhaha.  Yeah right.  Those file cabinets are great.

   it in my bones.)  Some of the features of the NeXT windowing environment
   are good, like being able to store directories and applications at the
   top of a viewer.  But overall the response time on resizing windows and
   the like can be really poor.

   Enjoy whatever machine you have, but for myself I'd rather spend an
   eternity with Workbench 1.3, than a century with a NeXT '040.

Hmmm.  Your choice.

-Mike