Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!karazm.math.uh.edu!jet From: jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <1991May15.172754.27656@menudo.uh.edu> Date: 15 May 91 17:27:54 GMT References: <1991May15.061512.13294@lel <5+aHafz4@cs.psu.edu> Sender: usenet@menudo.uh.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics Lines: 45 Nntp-Posting-Host: karazm.math.uh.edu In article <5+aHafz4@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: >I think that if you sit any >Amiga user down in front of a NeXT who isn't doing video or who >doesn't want a $3000 Nintendo and he will chose the NeXT. It is the >better machine, all things considered. I think you're wrong. I traded my 68010 UNIX box for a A2000. I had a chance to buy a file-sale cube or an A3000. I took the A3000. Why? (Oh yeah, forgot to say, my A2000 and all my cool video/imaging gear got stolen, that was my incentive to buy a new computer. Otherwise, I would have just put a bigger CPU in the 2000.) 0. I've owned UNIX before. It's fun, but it's like having a job that doesn't pay. (Not to mention I have the sort of job that keeps a Sparc-2 on my desk and an Intel iPSC/860 parallel machine down the hall. Pfhprt to 030 vs 040 wars. :-) 1. I like having software I can afford. FrameMaker is cool (I use it at work all the time), but I could never afford it for the house. Period. I can afford DTP packages for the Amiga (which, while not as good as FrameMaker, are better than a NeXT and no DTP). 2. I like multitasking, but I don't need multiuser for a home box. Things like uids, process trees, etc etc etc, have no place on a home box that will *never* have more than one person on it. I'd like virtual memory, but ram is cheap enough that this isn't a big problem. I'd rather a real-time OS than virtual memory. (Even if I wanted to run multiuser, where can I get a X-style "NeXT terminal" so my SO can use Frame from the other room while I use the console?) 4. Color, yeah, color. 5. Lots of cool peripherals already exist: SMPTE, serial expanders, video toys, audio toys (including a DSP card, finally :-), neat stuff for card development. If I had another $3000 to spend on a computer, I'd seriously consider a NeXT. I miss having a UNIX box at home. But not enough to buy a machine that doesn't do the sort of things I need to do at home. -- J. Eric Townsend - jet@uh.edu - bitnet: jet@UHOU - vox: (713) 749-2126 Skate UNIX or bleed, boyo...(UNIX is a trademark of Unix Systems Laboratories). [As soon as my Amiga 3000 arrives, it'll be Skate Motorola time!]