stx@vax1.mankato.msus.edu (Kevin Whyte) (12/06/90)
comp.sys.amiga.advocacy where are you?!!!
NeXts are nice as are amigas. If you prefer the amiga, buy amiga. Like the
new NeXts? Buy one. Cast your vote with your dollar. Stop rehashing the same
arguments over and over. 68030 -vs- 68040 : Sys4 -vs- Mach.
What are these arguments accomplishing? I must admit there is some intresting
information but it is being hidden by the volume of posts with info that has
been rehashed over and over again.
The A3000UX has been prereleased to developers and some education markets. I
haven't heard if the '040 NeXt has or not. But the fact of the matter is that
neither version can be bought "off the shelf" right now. Can we at least wait
until we have a product before we start defending it?
Just my opinion. Try not to be offended by it, it wasn't meant that way.
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stx@vax1.mankato.msus.edu Kevin Whyte Proud Owner of an
Mankato State University Amiga 1000
stx@att1.mankato.msus.edu Mankato MN 56001
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~c60a-gy@danube.Berkeley.EDU (Ben (Benno) Carroll) (12/06/90)
To the people who responded to my last post:
(you know..."the ongoing debate"
First of all, thank you for responding...that was my first post in this group
, and my second overall. It's a pretty neat system, I think...:)
I have a followup question about the NeXT's price: if they are making a
comfortable amount of money now...why did they introduce the NeXT at such
exhorbitant (sp?) prices years ago...did they think that there would be
enough wealthy elite computer users who wanted the computer in the prettiest
box to install a reasonable user base? It is nice to see that they can sell
such great technology at such good prices...maybe every other manufacturer
should keep a close eye on *how* they do it, and then *maybe* try to do the
same :)
And to my second respondant, the soapbox lecturer: I am sorry that it took
a religious turn...that was a semantics mistake on my part. I didn't mean
to imply that any other computer was useless or anything. That is a
ridiculous concept. What I meant to say was that I would like to see the
tables turned, to some degree. Platforms like the NeXT and the Amiga offer
great power and flexibility at a low cost. Mac offers reasonable flexibility
at high costs (anything within Amiga price range cannot be typed into, and
cannot displa anything, excepting the new mac classic, which is outpreformed
by an even cheaper Amiga), and IBM offers a very old fashioned, non-evolving
system (well, it is evolving ...more and more cycles per second...but that's
nothing special) at ridiculous costs. I think that if more people were
willing to try something new, IBM's would soon disappear (from the desk
top computer niche), because, for what they do, there is no reason to pay
such high prices.
Also, I think that it is IBM's domination which lends Amiga the stigma of
being only a game machine...I went into a computer store (only IBM-clones)
soon after getting my Ami, in order to stock up on disks buy a couple of
disk holders. I had 50 disks and 2 holders on the counter, and decided to
ask if they could order me Lattice C. The guy laughed and said that was
ridiculous. He confided in me, "y'know, all the amiga is good for is games"
and I confided in him,"I don't buy anything from salespeople who don't
know what they are talking about."
I am starting to babble, I guess, and am probably bordering on more
religious topics...so I'll quit while I am ahead.
:^D
just put this one on a low simmer....
^^^^
-Benno (for now c60a-gy@danube.berkeley.EDU)
Amiga...because that's what all my software runs on.a808@mindlink.UUCP (David R. Matthews) (12/06/90)
No kidding!!! Quit arguing. Buy what you like, and shut up..... OK?