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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: An interesting idea...
Message-ID: <3464.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 9 May 91 09:26:01 GMT
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Quoted from <5065@dirac.physics.purdue.edu> by murphy@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (William J. Murphy):
> In article <3315.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
> >    Has nothing to do with beefing up their machine. For a lot of
> >    people, any PClone blows the NeXT away.

> Yeah, I use my '386 as a glorified tape transfer station to the NeXT.  
> (I take data on PC's in a laboratory and chose to do the analysis on a NeXT.)

    I'd bet a small amount of money that the people who find the PClone's
    functionality at least doubly as appropriate as they would find the
    NeXT's is on the order of 20 to 1, throughout the world. I'm tempted
    to say some 3-digit number to 1, in fact.

    Sure there are exceptions, particularly on the net, where people are
    inclined to do more useful things with the hardware, but in terms
    of plain numbers, the PClone beats the tar out of the NeXT.

    It also hammers the Amiga into the dust, though maybe not so badly
    (we can emulate a Mac, and can run standard AT&T Unix, both of which
    could be useful to a standard business sort of user).

> Bill Murphy
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