NeXT vs. Amiga 3000UX? (was Re: Amiga 3000UX, X, ...)

[David Kessner]

In article <1991Mar19.184812.4218 at cs.umn.edu> brsmith at cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith) writes:
>>I am at the point where I'd find the extra money to buy a
>>SPARC/NEXT/486 rather than getting a A3000UX-- but I think I'm just
>>used to the higher performance of these machines (ie, I'm spoiled)...
>
>EXTRA money?  Educational prices:
>  NeXTstation with 105meg disk, 8meg ram, floppy:	$3,221
>    (Through U of MN bookstore.)
>  Amiga 3000/UXB - 100meg disk, 4meg ram, (floppy?):	$4,003

Sorry.  I was thinking more along the lines of a A3000UX compared to a SPARC
Clone.  Using non-educational pricing:  approx $7000 for 8meg, 200meg HD 
A3000UX vs approx $8000-9000 for a SPARC (8 meg, 200 meg HD, ethernet, and
16" 1280x1024x256 display).  

I do not consider the A3000UXB an option.  It's 4 meg RAM and 100 meg HD is
not large enough for any real work.  Keep in ming that it takes 15-20 meg
just to build EMACS (which has 10 meg of source code)!  Unix and X itself 
takes about 60meg of the hard drive, and then there are the manuals...  

Also, the A3000 and the next use the 030-- which is too slow.  (I think that
was the 030 NeXT you mentioned above.)

>Ok - maybe it's an apples and oranges comparison.  But, being somewhat
>poor, those are THE low-end Unix workstations available to me.  (No, I
>don't consider {3,4}86 based ex-DOS machines worth the bother.)  I
>can't help but WISH that either NeXT would get off their horse and use
>X, or that Commodore would up the default memory to 8meg and offer a
>humongous grayscale monitor without the extra $$$....

Hmmm.  UNIX on a 386 is vrey nice-- except X on a VGA display is slow.  But
34010 boards are in the less than $1000 range, and there are some at $600!  
This makes then much more attractive...

>Brian  (Yet another lost soul looking to dump an Apple IIgs.)

Hey, I have a VIC-20 here!  Anyone looking for a VIC-20?

						- David K
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