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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga System
Keywords: NeXT Lisa Macintosh spam Amiga
Message-ID: <2906@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 26 Oct 88 01:32:31 GMT
References: <1988Oct22.213709.3687@ziebmef.uucp>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <1988Oct22.213709.3687@ziebmef.uucp>, timg@ziebmef.uucp (Tim Grantham) writes:
> Interesting comment... When I commented to a colleague that the NeXT was
> a gross case of technological overkill that would really be only of much
> use to the Comp. Sci. elite, he said ``Kind of like the Lisa was... maybe
> Jobs will have to come out with the NeXT equivalent of the Mac as well to
> make any sales to the masses.''

Interesting. As far as I can see the Amiga is the NeXT equivalent of the Mac.
Not directly, but they share a soul...

Like the Mac it's got a non-compatible operating system that inherits the basic
concepts of the original with some added features and big missing chunks: in
the case of the Lisa, the toolkit was way better on the mac but it wasn't
multitasking. In the case of NeXT, the Amiga Exec is realtime and Mach isn't,
but Mach supports virtual memory superbly... and the Amiga not at all. Both
the Lisa and the Mac are heavily windowed, with bitmapped displays. Both the
NeXT and the Amiga have a mixture of command lines and windows and a message
based operating system; with bitmapped displays, coprocessors, and digital
audio synthesis that have been described as inadequate for serious work (though
theres no doubt that the NeXT is less inadequate :->).

And the Amiga already has software!
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		Peter da Silva  `-_-'  peter@sugar.uu.net
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