Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ls1i+ From: ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!! Message-ID: Date: 11 Nov 90 19:16:07 GMT References: <46372@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Nov7.212944.11043@agate.berkeley.edu> <1990Nov9.123411.8511@cs.uoregon.edu>, <46447@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: <46447@apple.Apple.COM> On 09-Nov-90 in Re: Not another NeXT defect.. user Ron Barr@Apple.COM writes: >mings@cs.uoregon.edu (Ming Yau So) writes: > >>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 ! > >I think you are pointing out a flaw in Apple's marketing. Setting up a small >network of Macintoshes IS easy (almost trivial) and cheap, too. > >As a training exercise for new sales reps at Apple they are given some Macs >and cables and asked to set it up. They can and do. > >Large enterprise wide nets are another story, but that's not the point. So where is the difficulty in connecting a small NeXT network? From what I understand, all it entailes is wireing all the machines together with phone wire (10 base-T Ethernet). Then you can start using the great mail program, share printers, nfs filesharing, etc.