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From: hgm@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (Hal G. Meeks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: NeXT
Keywords: NeXT 68030 unix amiga
Message-ID: <2245@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 88 13:12:36 GMT
References: <308@solaria.csun.edu>
Reply-To: hgm@ncsuvx.UUCP (Hal G. Meeks)
Organization: NCSU Computing Center
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In article <308@solaria.csun.edu> ecphssrw@afws.csun.edu (Stephen Walton) writes:
>I just read the alt.next posting on Steve Jobs's machine.  I think
>it'll give the Amiga a run for its money.  Mentally adding up an
>equivalent A2000 system, I think NeXT gives us a run for our money.
>Oddly, our advantage is that we *don't* run Unix, and so a 4 MB Amiga
>has as much RAM for running user programs as an 8 MB NeXT :-).
>-- 
  
  Three points to consider:
  1. Remember that great boing! ball demo we all saw a few years ago? Think
  of how far we have come since then. The NeXT machine is going to undergo
  the same amount of change, in possibly a little less time. There are still
  areas in which the amiga can be improved, but the key fact is that there
  is room in overall design of the machine for them to occur. We may not
  grow at the same rate as in the past, but possibilities do exist. 
  2. $6500 is a discount price for universities and developers. The "general
  user's" price is going to be signifigantly higher.
  3. The NeXT machine and the Amiga are drastically different machines, in
  their design goals and targeted market. I don't think I would be happy
  with one at all, as my single computer at home. At work, though, it might
  be nice. However, I suspect that people will look at what the NeXT machine
  does, pick out the features that they like about the machine, and think of
  ways to do similar things on the Amiga. And the Amiga remains less
  expensive.
   
   --hal
   hgm@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu