Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: Date: 8 May 91 03:40:48 GMT References: <1991May5.115329.24187@sugar.hackercorp.com> <_g5Gy0x*1@cs.psu.edu> <1991May6.110530.7978@sugar.hackercorp.com> <=0bGppm&1@cs.psu.edu> <48624@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu's message of 7 May 91 23:26:34 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <48624@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes: Hmmm... Actually, I though I remembered that most of the Amiga software costed $50 back then. It was probably more like $99. I don't think the EA stuff was that cheap. The games were $50 bucks, and except for Marble Madness, they were mostly C64 ports. Remember Deluxe Paint, Deluxe Video, Deluxe...? And the software was buggy as hell. Catch-22 there. You have to have software in order to establish yourself as a big business. Making it easy for developers to write software for your machine helps too. BTW, I can get a pretty decent 386 box for $2000. If I ran a business I don't think I'd concern myself with some weird, non-standard machine like the NeXT even if all I was going to do was spreadsheet work (by that I mean even if I could use Improv). I'm asking for more trouble by getting into a Unix box in the first place, and from what I hear about administering a NeXT that's a serious consideration. With a cache? The 040 is 3-4 times faster than the 386, which doesn't even have a floating-point coprocessor built in. Who told you that the NeXT is difficult to administer? Your local Apple or IBM rep.? -Mike