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From: verket@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Paul Verket)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Free software distribution for the NeXT?
Message-ID: <826@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 90 16:24:38 GMT
References: <4b1vCe_00Voh466EVm@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Redondo Beach, CA
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From article <4b1vCe_00Voh466EVm@andrew.cmu.edu>, ***
by tmab+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Mok):
> I am also curious to know whether there is any way to network a Next and a
> PC or a Mac.  I am thinking of using them as "dump" terminals, and let a few
> people have access to the machine at the same time.
I use NCSA Telnet from zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu for both the Mac and PC to get
vt100 sessions on the NeXT. It supports a number of network options including
localtalk (assuming that you have a localtalk to ethernet gateway).

As a bonus NCSA Telnet has FTP so you can transfer data to/from floppies
for those sneakernet uses.