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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: 10baseT & Cheapernet
Message-ID: <35@san-jacinto.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 19 Sep 90 18:20:03 GMT
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <9453@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> whelan@donald.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Jerry Whelan) writes:

>	With the new NeXTs supporting both thin and twisted pair
>ethernet it would seem a reasonable to ask if both ports can be
>simultaneously active.  Can I use a new NeXT to link a thinwire
>network to a twisted pair net?

According to the NeXT rep. at UT Austin on 09/19/90, the answer is
no - that is, you can configure only one (any one) of the two
Ethernet ports as active.

>	Oh, and how about those educational prices?  What are we looking
>at for a base NeXTstation slab?

The educational price for the $4,995 machine appears to be $3,370.
-- 
John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas