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>In article <1992Apr8.021216.21124@news2.cis.umn.edu> wisdom@leghorn.cs.umn.edu (Scott Wisdom) writes:

>Are you suggesting that NeXTs are harder to integrate into mixed networks than
>Macs? NeXTs come with (STANDARD!) ethernet + TCP/IP + NFS + RPC + etc + etc. 
>It all works very well (even with NetInfo). Macs come with what? A serial port
>and appletalk? How is that going to get a Mac connected to a network of suns  
>and HPs or any other popular workstation? Many Macs can't even be expanded to 
>add ethernet. I think that NeXT wins over Mac in the networkability arena  
>hands down (especialy with 3.0 - system 7 networking will be nothing compared 
>to 3.0 networking).
>

I think this is a bit incorrect. First, I don't know of any Mac that can't be
connected to Ethernet. With some of the older models you may have to use SCSI
ethernet or a Localtalk-Ethernet router, but it still is ethernet. Second,
all Macs support TCP/IP using the MacTCP driver, so NeXT has no advantage here.
Third, I work with NeXT and Mac computers in a mixed network environment and I
find them both equally as easy to setup on a network. NeXT does win in the
network management area because this is mostly non-existent on Macs. Finally,
if you are looking for a weak point for Macs in a networked environment, I 
would say it is the Mac filesystem. It is not impossible, but it is very painful
to integrate NFS and Mac filesystems. Also, moving Mac files to other systems
can be a pain.