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Article #10471Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times?
From: peter da silva
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 20:55
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 20:55
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In article <11399@uwm.edu>, jonas@convex.csd.uwm.edu (Jonas K Manske) writes: > I am just wondering,..... I am considering buying one, it has a few nice > features that interest me, but then again so does the Amiga. The Amiga > has a big problem in that it gets little coverage. I don't want a UNIX > workstation like that.... The NeXT and the Amiga 3000UX have the same problem here: they're 68000 based, so you won't expect any outstanding improvements in the next few years. Even if NeXT and Commodore make like Sun and switch to RISC processors your existing machine is likely to be left behind. Though the asynchronous bus on the Amiga means that a RISC coprocessor board would be quite a workable compromise. The NeXT bus is much slower, more designed as a peripheral bus instead of a general backplane like the Amiga's. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Will NeXT survive? Grow with the times? Message-ID: <JH_ABJF@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 26 Apr 91 20:55:11 GMT References: <11399@uwm.edu> Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation Lines: 16