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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.122106.9034@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <7-aGv&kf1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr3.112104.6657@infonode.ingr.com> <e0aG2veg1@cs.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1991 12:21:06 GMT

In article <e0aG2veg1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> But for a lot of the users do, the NeXT is better.  DTP,
> spreadsheets, etc, and it has more horsepower in the 68040 to do these
> things.

Yeh, but for those users the Macintrash is nearly as good, and it's a lot
cheaper (especially since Apple just cut the prices from absolutely outrageous
to merely scandalous). And as a UNIX Workstation the NeXT has competition from
RISC machines (of course the same is true of the A3000UX, but you don't need
to run UNIX on your A3000).
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
