Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!templar!jbickers From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <3419.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> Date: 9 May 91 07:31:52 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> Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG. Lines: 32 Quoted from by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger): > Hmmm... Actually, I though I remembered that most of the Amiga software > It was probably more like $99. I don't think the EA stuff was that Hey, a lot of it was free! > 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 > With a cache? The 040 is 3-4 times faster than the 386, which doesn't Yeah, but so what? If the guy used the machine for small business spreadsheets or accounting, there's a very good chance he'd be wasting money for CPU cycles he doesn't need. Larger commercial tasks, as some people will merrily point out, emphasise IO speed more than CPU speed - the processing is usually simple, but data needs to move in and out rapidly. > even have a floating-point coprocessor built in. Who told you that > the NeXT is difficult to administer? Your local Apple or IBM rep.? People have trouble printing documents under MS-DOS from inside applications. If the NeXT needs to be administered at all, it's going to be a pain. > -Mike -- *** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz *** *** "Endless variations, make it all seem new" - Devo. ***