Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!samsung!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@Sugar.NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX in PCW Message-ID: <1991Jul1.023737.29018@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Date: 1 Jul 91 02:37:37 GMT References: <1991Jun28.185652.1@cc.helsinki.fi> <1991Jun30.015457.17258@Sugar.NeoSoft.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 39 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > This is simply not true. NeXTStep is quite responsive on a 16MB(<$600 > for an 16MB at the Chip Merchant). I thought that our long discussion > a few months back settled the misunderstanding that the NeXT is slow. No, it didn't settle anything. But that's par for the course. > There's more horsepower in the 68040 NeXT than a 68030 Amiga even with > the blitter. That's true. And it needs it a lot more. > Why wouldn't a NeXT be a great stand alone machine? Um, the shipped system isn't even big enough to hold the shipped software. > Could you clarify what you mean by "no expansion?" Where do I plug in my multiport serial card? My real-time stepper controller card? Extra display cards for multi-head operation? Video Toaster? 68050 card? > What more do you want? Color for your DTP packages? Buy a > NeXTstation color. Right. Expansion by buying new computers. > What have you added to you "expandable" Amiga 3000 lately? Nothing. But I added a total of 22 serial ports to an AT-bus UNIX box. Another one has dual network cards for simultaneous OSI and TCP/IP work as a gateway. Who knows what people will need to add to their machines after they buy them. I spent $2000 on my 3000. If I had to start out buying $4000 worth of hardware I couldn't have bought it. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' . 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"