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In article <1992Mar30.032556.1231@parsec.mixcom.com>, alberto@parsec.mixcom.com (Manuel Alberto Ricart) writes:
> 
> >
> >NeXT does not and will not support LocalTalk.
> >For that matter, Apple is strongly encouraging its own users to
> >abandon LocalTalk in favor of EtherTalk and TokenTalk.  (Except
> >on the "toy" models which are apparently being marketed as
> >standalones anyway.)
> >
> >LocalTalk is a dead technology.
> >
> >					-=EPS=-
> 
> Only problem is that there are alot of "toy" models out there.
> Once again in its infinite wisdom, Apple continues to makes the
> "slower" models without ethernet built in. And thus creating
> an obsolence problem for equipment that is still being manufactured.
> Makes sense! NOT!
> 
> Apple: what about a free upgrade to get rid of the dreadly slow
> local talk?
> (perhaps mac users should be requesting this)
> __
> Manuel Alberto Ricart
> alberto@parsec.mixcom.com <NeXTMail Welcome>
> 

Please don't beat Apple up about this.  Apple makes personal computers, not
engineering workstations.  In general they are competing with vendors of
MS-DOS machines, not Sun/HP/NeXT/etc.  They are the only manufacturer of this
class of machines that have any kind of network hardware standard on all
their machines, and also the only one that includes ethernet as standard 
hardware on any machines.

Just so you don't think I'm too much of a corporate lackey, I do think that
Apple should no longer be building machines to which Ethernet can't be
conveniently added (like the Classic and Classic II).  They don't consult me
on these issues, though, and I guess given the sales volume of those machines,
apparently there are a large number of people who just don't care about 
Ethernet.

Jim Cooper
disclaimer (I guess this time I need it):
   My opinions, not Apple's