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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1991 17:11:26 GMT

In article <g_7G$f.f1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>In article <1991Apr3.070829.31178@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>
>	   Well, what does your company do, what software do you
>   have on the Amiga, and what are they expected to do with the
>   machine? It doesn't make much sense to show an Amiga to people
>   who are interested in doing SQL Database work, for example.
>
>I am a student who works part time for Penn State as a programmer.  We
>develop educational software.  We have Amiga Vision, and ...I'm not
>sure what else.
>
	And so what are their complaints? Have they used
AmigaVision for anything? If you just make quick comments on it
there is no way to figure out the problem.


>The Mac upgrade from Radius costs $3500 as I posted earlier.  Sun
>sells their IPC(one of them) for $4995, the same as the NeXT.  They
>also offer an educational discount similar to NeXT's.  I assume Sun is
>making money.  NeXT's is probably making money on their low-end
>machines.
>
	I've heard reports that they are selling them at cost. As
to Sun, they don't have the same worries as NeXT as they make
their own CPU instead of buying from elsewhere. They don't
include a DSP. There is also only one unit, just a monitor, no
pizza-box. There is also no HD. I'd say their costs are much lower.

>-Mike
>


	-- Ethan

Q: How many Comp Sci majors does it take to change a lightbulb
A: None. It's a hardware problem.
