Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!uwm.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gblock From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT doesn't support 030 machinesn Message-ID: <11876@uwm.edu> Date: 7 May 91 00:22:57 GMT References: Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Distribution: usa Lines: 34 Originator: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu From article , by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): > > In article <1991May6.193235.27330@leland.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes: > > > And those of us who have an '030 NeXT and can't afford to upgrade? Well, we > can just go straight to hell, I 'spose. My A1000 has more support. 1/2 :-) > > NeXT Step 2.0 runs on the 030 machines. NeXT didn't make some > optimizations to the OS because they wanted to make sure that it ran > on the 030 machines. Let me know when you can get Amiga DOS 2.0 for > your Amiga. Hopefully the 040 board upgrade will be offered for some > time so you will be able to get one. $1000 bucks is not bad for a 3-4 > fold increase in speed. If you wait a year, just get the 88K upgrade > instead. Okay, I'll run this by you again, because I know diddley about the 88k. UNLESS IT IS BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE WITH THE 680X0 LINE, THERE WON'T BE AN AMIGA UPGRADE TO IT. Commodore has no need to leave people in the dust. And if suddenly an Amiga doesn't run Amiga software anymore, is it still an Amiga??? (rhetorical, don't answer) > BTW, I think we're forgetting that the NeXT 040 upgrade is $1500 for > non-University owners. So when is Jobs going to leave the 030 behind? That's the way your message sounds. Like he's letting the 030 hold him back... something you said the NeXT doesn't do. Anyways. Enough babbling, I have work. :) -- All opinions are my own, and not those of my employer. Why? He doesn't know I'm doing this. -Wubba