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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: More on NeXT pricing...
Message-ID: <130104@gore.com>
Date: 26 Sep 90 15:08:11 GMT
References: <1990Sep25.052907.4351@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Organization: Gore Enterprises
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/ comp.sys.next / dd26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Douglas F. DeJulio) / Sep 25, 1990 /
> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
> > An end user can't connect a NeXTstation to the serial port of their PC,
> > nor, in the case of a LaserWriter, to their LocalTalk network.
> 
> The NeXT has serial ports, why couldn't you hook it up to a PC?  Just
> write some software to listen to the serial port and print whatever
> comes in over it.

*I* could[1], but your typical PC end-user won't be interested in (or capable
of) doing it.

Jacob

[1] I found it much easier, and quite cheap, to just drop an Ethernet card
into the PC and set up some software...

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