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- From: Eco_-_Development@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Should I buy a NeXT -> Thanks!
- Message-ID: <69884@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 21:40:43 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- References: <1992Nov11.232547.23466@reed.edu>
- <1992Nov18.152314.27777@das.harvard.edu>,<1992Nov19.065446.3742@csus.edu>
- <00963D85.907611C0@vms.csd.mu.edu>
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- >In article <1992Nov19.065446.3742@csus.edu>, eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) write
- s
- >:
- >>In article <1992Nov18.152314.27777@das.harvard.edu>
- >> charuhas@virtual4.harvard.edu (Thomas Charuhas) writes:
- >>>I hate to do this, since I am a NeXT owner, but I would encourage
- >>>you to look at the new Amiga 4000 if you are thinking about
- >>>doing animation and video work. There is a plethora of
- >>>solid modeling/ray tracing software available, as well as
- >>>a whole assortment of video production software AND hardware.
- >>>(If you see the Video Toaster you'll see what I mean).
- >>
- >>I thought the Video Toaster "absolutely, positively" would NOT
- >>work with the Amiga 4000--and that NewTek had *no* plans to
- >>support the 4000. Feel free to cite authoritative statements
- >>to the contrary.
- >>
- >> -=EPS=-
- >>--
- >>We need the Amiga to "succeed" so we can keep making fun of it.
- >
- >Nope, I've used one with a A4000. It will NOT work internally as
- >it does with the A2000, but there's nothing to prevent you from
- >using it externally with a third-party product, called Toaster-Cozy.
- >Followups to comp.sys.amiga.graphics.
- >
- > ----------------------------
- > Ryan K. Brooks "You're never dead till you're
- > 2575BrooksR@vms.csd.mu.edu out of quarters."
- > Marquette University EECE
- > NemeSys Corporation
- > "Curtains for Windows"
- >
-
- The Toaster will *not* work in a 4000. But it will work in an
- 040' Amiga 3000. There is a '3000' version of the Toaster
- due out soon, according to Tim Jennison(sp?) (President NewTek).
- There are reputed problems with the Toaster Cozy and the 4000.
-