Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!caen!uwm.edu!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: Date: 12 May 91 20:16:56 GMT References: <1991May7.235145.12420@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991May8.013806.14640@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991May12.190706.28411@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu's message of 12 May 91 19:07:06 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1991May12.190706.28411@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes: Well, I was commenting that unless nExt makes its own chips, every other computer will be getting chips from Motorola. You know, the company that makes the CPU for the Mac, Amiga, nExt, Atari, Genesis... Let's see how well Apple, Atari, and Commodore make the transition to the 88K, or any other chip. And that is only if the computers have expansion slots. You aren't going to be able to just drop an 88K in a computer. You will need a redesigned CPU board. An expandable NeXT costs $2000 more than the NeXTstation. If you don't need the expansion, it's better(IMHO) to buy the NeXTstation and sell it when you want a bigger and better machine. For college students, the extra price to get the Cube is almost another NeXTstation minus the monitor. I want to take this time to say that in general it has been a fair discussion on this newsgroup, with the exception of mIKE, who tends to get everything except the truth... Yeah, the guy who likes the NeXT was wrong. -Mike