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From: anand@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Anand Iyengar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXt Performance/Price
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Date: 13 Apr 89 21:15:01 GMT
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In article <1989Apr12.230604.23347@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> craig@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Craig Hubley) writes:
>I consider a NeXT to be an 'Amiga done right', with the same hardware
>support for graphics and sound, good price/performance, a supportable
	Careful, here...I personally see them as being in two different
classes machines (i.e. I can almost afford an Amiga).  
>Point is, there are many tradeoffs in workstation design, and I also see
>the NeXT as having some Amiga-style problems:  being tightly tied to a 
>particular processor family (now almost old-fashioned), having its own
	I'm not sure that I agree with you here.  Mach purportedly can be
ported to many/most hardware.  Also, with a bit of work they can make
another CPU board.  I think the bus goes to slow (or will eventually), but
I don't design hardware...

>Thank God NeXT has bundled software, paid close attention to aesthetics
	Definite +'s...


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