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From: mings@cs.uoregon.edu (Ming Yau So)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
Summary: novice user sets up a network ?
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Date: 9 Nov 90 12:34:11 GMT
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In article <TWL.90Nov8121433@boojum.cs.brown.edu> twl@cs.brown.edu (Ted "Theodore" W. Leung) writes:

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>The issue in system administration is not for single users.  For a
>single user, I'm willing to believe that setting up out of the box is
>trivial (although adding a  SCSI drive to a NeXT doesn't seem to be so
>easy -- I have a long file of directions from various people who claim
>that their way works).  However, lets take two novice users and give
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>them 5 Macs and 5 Nextstations to setup in a small network, each with
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>one laser printer to share.  How much work is it for these people to
>be up and running (to be fair, the mac people have to install
>Appleshare on one machine)?  I'm not so sure that I think the NeXT
>will be plug and play.  If you have an experienced user, might be a
>different story, but not two novics.

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Oh, come on, be more realistic !

May I ask how many times you will see a NOVICE user setting up a network ?

I don't know how hard in networking Macs or NeXTs, but I do know that it is
not an easy job for a novice user to set up any kind of network.

Giving examples for arguments is good, but please be more realistic !

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