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From: rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:The NeXT Machine
Message-ID: <AXJKity00V4DI10kxo@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 88 02:51:37 GMT
Organization: Carnegie Mellon
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>   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 ...
Humm.. WEll that $10K price tag that you mentioned may just make it a little
difficult for some
of us to go out and buy a NeXT Machine (Do you have $10K, lying around? I know
I don't)
Plus, with the NeXT Machine just being released, ask your self this: How Long
is it going to take
for it to have descent software (I mean software WRITTEN for the machine, not
some PD UNIX
stuff ported over), look the Amiga's been out for almost 4 years and just now
is the software begining
to actually use the potential of the machine (and there is now a pretty strong
base of it too, certainly
not as much as Apple or IBM, but hey they've been around longer and they cost a
lot more $$$ too.).
In any case, Is the NeXT Machine REALLY out? I've Heard "The NeXT Machine is
comeing out
next month..."  for a long time now, so is it really out?  And at $10K? I
though It was supposed to
be far less ($5K? $3K? I've heard both before...)  Also, I've heard so MANY
RUMORS about what
the machine is suppoed to contain, does anyone have the company's official
specs? I'de like to know
(so that if the price ever comes down, and it's work it...).  In any case the
Amiga (good old A1000
+2Megs :-) ) suits my needs very well (I would like more colors, resolution and
speed a 68020 or
68030, but NOT at what I'de have to pay for them now!) since it provides
multi-tasking (protection
would be nice, but I can live without it, mostly) , GOOD graphics and sound (Go
and use an Apple
II+ for a while and tell me about BAD graphics...) and it is of comprable speed
(Maybe not as fast
as a Mac II or 386 in pure processor power, but it fairs pretty well compared
to the SE, and an AT)
so all in all the Amiga is STILL a good machine.  You CAN buy better machines,
but hey if you
REALLY want power go pick up a sun 4 or a Cray ;-) , but I bet that you can't
get one for near
the cost of  the amiga.
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