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In article <1992Dec8.043237.25320@slab.slip.uiuc.edu>
	derek@slab.slip.uiuc.edu (Derek Taubert) writes:
>> At home my roommate and I have a NeXT and an apple Mac IIsi. We have a
>> bunch of phonenet connectors, I don't suppose that anyone has written a
>> driver that will allow me to use the phonenet connector on the next to
>> drive the next as an appleshare client or server using the capabilties
>> of NS 3.0?

You'd really be a lot happier with one of those nice Asante'
cards that plugs into the IIsi and gives you an Ethernet
interface and the floating-point unit that Apple should put there
in the first place (grr!) and a PDS pass-through.

>One of the things that really bothered me about the 3.0 presentation that
>the local NeXT rep gave was his attitude towards this.  "Why would ANYBODY
>want to use 230K/sec?"  Well, to support technology that is already in
>existance and in abundance?

And even Apple admits is *dead*.

>As far as I can tell, NeXT is not ever going to support LocalTalk.  Considering
>that they use 8530's for their serial ports (same as in mac's), I can't imagine
>why they wouldn't want to spend the small amount of time (compared to

Whoa.  NeXT's serial ports wheeze at 38.4Kb.  You might have
better luck with the DSP.  Note that Yrrid's TTYDSP product
supposedly tops out at 128Kb, however.

>                          If someone could point me in the direction of SLIP or
>   MIDI driver source code, this would be sufficient.

NeXT's MIDI driver runs *slower* than 38.4Kb!

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