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From: rminnich@duper.super.org (Ronald G Minnich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: The NeXT Machine
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Date: 13 Oct 88 12:44:22 GMT
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Reply-To: rminnich@duper.super.org (Ronald G Minnich)
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This is interesting. Now the Amiga is being compared to the NeXT machine
and found wanting. After all, the NeXT machine will sell to users 
for only about $10K, so the comparison makes sense after all ...
   The price of the machines the amiga gets compared to keeps going 
up, but the Amiga never seems to do any better. No fair.
   On the other hand, it is clear that the flock of hackers who
were attracted to the amiga (like, uh, leo? he has been asking about
it on alt.next ... sob) may now flock to the NeXT machine. C= is going
to have to do something soon ... very soon indeed. I had thought about
getting an A2000 system at SRC, but institutional resistance makes 
it clear that getting a NeXT machine will be much easier- it, after 
all, runs Mach, a grown-up operating system. The amiga window is closing
fast. It seems the MAC II types and the Amiga types here can agree that NeXT
is probably an acceptable compromise.
ron