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From: dcarpent@sjuphil.uucp (D. Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: SLIP (was Re: businessland fire sale tactics (eccch))
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.042005.26087@sjuphil.uucp>
Date: 14 Nov 90 04:20:05 GMT
Reply-To: dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP (D. Carpenter)
Organization: Saint Joseph's University
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In article <1017@toaster.SFSU.EDU> stan@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Stan Osborne) writes:
>Is it not obvious to everyone, including NeXT that the only cost
>effective way for people to put their home on the Internet (or any net)
>is to use SLIP?  (Serial Line Internet Protocol)
>
>We have students and faculty who want to buy a NeXT for use at home.
>At least for the faculty, and possibly for the students, we are planning
>to provide dial-in SLIP support.  The fact NeXT is still unwilling to
>support SLIP (or make it easily available), puts a damper on our
>ability to recommend NeXTs for home use.
>
>It is both silly and unecessary for people to need a PC at home to
>be the slip-to-thinnet router.

I just want to add my voice in support of what is being said here.
I have had a NeXT at home for over a year, and I teach at a school
with a campus ethernet network.  Why CAN'T NeXT support SLIP?????
It's been asked for over and over and over for the last year or two,
and there are obviously people who need it, probably quite a few, and
the number is obviously growing.  Are those of us who happen to do
much of our work at home to be left our of the "interpersonal computing
of the '90s" that Jobs talks so much about?  I asked several people from
NeXT about this at Educom in October and got several different answers
from several different people, but the bottom line seemed to be that
NeXT had no plans of supporting SLIP.  Why not???  What's the big
problem???


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David Carpenter            dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP                    
St. Joseph's University    dcarpent@sjuphil.sju.edu
Philadelphia, PA  19131