Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!olivea!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga basher Message-ID: <1991Jun17.230207.10415@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 17 Jun 91 23:02:07 GMT References: <56@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun16.170632.22749@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 21 [ NeXT more expensive than any Amiga ] In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > Even the Amiga 3000 Unix machine? That's not an Amiga. It's a workstation. It's using the Amiga hardware, but it's not running the Amiga operating system nor does it take any real advantage of the Amiga's unique hardware. It might as well *be* a NeXT. > It would be nice if a 15 mip,.... box cost $2000 You mean like the Archimedes? > Many more people > would be better off with the Amiga, but people in corporate America > sure aren't. No, they're better off with an IBM PC or a Macintosh. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"