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From: lane@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Christopher Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: To upgrade or not to upgrade...
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Date: 12 Nov 90 16:39:54 GMT
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In <Nov.11.20.00.06.1990.15548@remus.rutgers.edu>, declan@remus.rutgers.edu
writes:
>In article <1990Nov11.212910.2084@sctc.com>, herndon@sctc.com (William R.
Herndon) writes:
>
>>     2.  Other than sheer blinding speed, what are some other advantages to
>>         having the 040 upgrade?  ( Please discount getting Lotus Improve.
>>         I'm already weighting that as factor. ).
>
>How about a 10Base-T Ethernet connector, SCSI-II connector, hardware flow
>control on serial ports (!).  And, of course, sheer blinding speed.  $-)

Declan,
    since you've chosen to tout SCSI-II as one of the new NeXT's advantages,
perhaps you could summerize for the net the differences a 'typical' NeXT user
would see having SCSI-II instead of just SCSI  (besides not being able to
swipe a SCSI cable from the nearest Macintosh anymore ;-).  And can you relate
these differences to the disks that NeXT and others are currently selling?

Thanks,

- Christopher

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