Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: AMIGA Message-ID: <1991May6.120017.9087@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <.v1G&v0*1@cs.psu.edu> <1991May5.125627.24864@sugar.hackercorp.com> Distribution: usa Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 12:00:17 GMT In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > > In article <1991May5.125627.24864@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > > Well, except that the Amiga started out cheaper than the competition. The NeXT > starts out more expensive. Here's a question: why would someone get a NeXT > rather than a 386 box running Microsoft Windows? Or a Mac? > Because the NeXT is a faster machine with a better OS, a better > display, a Digital Signal Processor, ... you know everything that the > NeXT has. Yes I do, so I'll ask again. Why would an end-user, not a technical type, get a NeXT rather than a 386 box running Microsoft Windows? Or a Mac? For the Amiga I can point to the lower price, the various niche markets, and so on. What has the NeXT got to attract J. Random *USER*. > Windows doesn't even compare. Ever run Toolbook on a Model > 70? I program on the PC at work, That makes my point. > and I've never seen such a piece of > shit. I can't wait until IBM nukes Microsoft for putting us through > this Windows joke. Are you kidding? Have you seen the OS/2 joke? That's IBM's answer to Windows. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .