Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!husc6!linus!philabs!sbcs!root From: root@sbcs.sunysb.edu (root) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: The NeXT Machine Message-ID: <1705@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 14 Oct 88 13:26:12 GMT References: Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 54 In article , rg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Rick Francis Golembiewski) writes: > 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 Probably the same amount of time it took to see native Amiga applications after that machine was introduced. > 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, Which Amiga are you talking about. The one I have here has pretty bad color graphics, eg interlaced 640x400x16 color vs the VGA 640x480 non interlaced 16 color. I find the claim that the Amiga 68000 is as fast as the Mac-II 68020 pretty interesting too :-) > 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. Look, people are not telling you to lump your Amiga and buy a NeXT machine. For universities it may ulimately make sense to lump their Sun systems in favor of the NeXT since (if Sun does nothing at all) the NeXT provides more bang for the buck. And please don't remind me that a 3/50 costs ~$3600 to universities - we have ~60 of them here. The *actual* cost of a 3/50 diskless is about $7600 when you amortize in the cost of a disk server. The people marketing the 2500UX have also basically taken a torpedo amidships too as not only is the system less than what a 3/50 gives you, it now has NeXT to reckon with. > +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------+ > | Disclaimer: Me? Post That, impossible I never post anything... > | > | TypetoYouLater(Everyone); --> "functional Good bye".... > | > | Rick Golembiewski [ Pronounciation is half the Battle, spelling the other] > | > +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------+ Rick Spanbauer SUNY/Stony Brook