Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The ongoing glut of NeXT-related posts (Re: the recent glut of Amiga-related posts) Message-ID: <1991May15.112659.22158@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 15 May 91 11:26:59 GMT References: <1991May14.131904.9788@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 23 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > > But you think that an IBM PC/XT is all that most people will ever need? > It's all that J. Random Suit needs. > Unless, he wants to run Lotus 123 3.0 or Excel 3.0. What is the > probably of that? The probability? That he wants to run them? 1.0. That he needs to? delta. In any case he can get a $1000 386SX box instead of a $400 8088 box. DOS software is just as fast on an SX as a DX, so a real 386 is overkill. This will leave him $4000 that he didn't spend on a NeXT for software. > We've come a long way Peter. You can emulate a 10MHz 286 IBM PC with > an EGA monitor in software on the NeXT. That's a reason to pay more than 10 times as much for that PC? I thought DOS emulation in the Amiga was a cute sales idea, but not terribly useful. It's no better in the NeXT. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .