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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <1991May6.120017.9087@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <.v1G&v0*1@cs.psu.edu> <1991May5.125627.24864@sugar.hackercorp.com> <fe4G6ev*1@cs.psu.edu>
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 12:00:17 GMT

In article <fe4G6ev*1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
> 
> In article <1991May5.125627.24864@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> 
>    Well, except that the Amiga started out cheaper than the competition. The NeXT
>    starts out more expensive. Here's a question: why would someone get a NeXT
>    rather than a 386 box running Microsoft Windows? Or a Mac?

> Because the NeXT is a faster machine with a better OS, a better
> display, a Digital Signal Processor, ... you know everything that the
> NeXT has.

Yes I do, so I'll ask again. Why would an end-user, not a technical type,
get a NeXT rather than a 386 box running Microsoft Windows? Or a Mac?

For the Amiga I can point to the lower price, the various niche markets, and
so on. What has the NeXT got to attract J. Random *USER*.

> Windows doesn't even compare.  Ever run Toolbook on a Model
> 70?  I program on the PC at work,

That makes my point.

> and I've never seen such a piece of
> shit.  I can't wait until IBM nukes Microsoft for putting us through
> this Windows joke.

Are you kidding? Have you seen the OS/2 joke? That's IBM's answer to Windows.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
