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Article #44222Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
From: Chris Whatley
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 18:02
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 1989 18:02
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6600pete@hub.UUCP writes: >From article <23147@brunix.UUCP>, by rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony): >Granted. But we were talking about hard-wiring EtherNet on the NeXT motherboard. >In the Mac, you drop in a card. Later you can drop in a fiber-optics card. Now, >this is not a specific advantage (or at least I am not attempting to show that >this is a specific advantage here). Yes that is true. One thing you fail to recognize is that it doesn't cost NeXT much more to build ethernet on their board than it does for Apple to put AppleTalk on theirs. Also, the NeXT has slots too. You could even use it as a gateway to a fiber-optic network if you wanted. -- Chris Whatley Work: chari@pelican.ma.utexas.edu (NeXT Mail) (512/471-7711 ext 123) Play: chari@nueces.cactus.org (NeXT Mail) (512/499-0475) Also: chari@emx.utexas.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!nueces!chari From: chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's? Message-ID: <1989Dec19.180200.25784@nueces.cactus.org> Date: 19 Dec 89 18:02:00 GMT References: <23147@brunix.UUCP> <3362@hub.UUCP> Organization: Nueces Inc. Lines: 18