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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: signal/noise ratio on comp.sys.next
Message-ID: <3888@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 17 Apr 89 19:26:23 GMT
References: <1586@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <1586@blake.acs.washington.edu>, mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) writes:
> The attributes of
> toy computers such as the Amiga or Atari ST (or even Macintosh) are
> not.

The Amiga is not a toy computer. It's the only machine out there with any
resemblance to the NeXT machine (can you say 680x0-based graphics machine
with built-in coprocessors and audiovisual support? Can you say real-time
operating system supporting lightweight processes? Can you say small message
passing kernel? I knew you could.), and there's a lot that NeXT can learn
from the history of the Amiga. The NeXT is just bigger, that's all.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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