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From: majka@cs.ubc.ca (Marc Majka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Nexts, Macs & Suns?
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.015704.18213@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: 14 Dec 90 01:57:04 GMT
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In article <1990Dec13.030626.6208@scrumpy@.bnr.ca> eric@bnrmtl.bnr.ca writes:
>0. Is there a Canadian 800 number where I could ask the Next 4 questions?
800-848-next == 800-848-6398

>1. Can the Next print to a Laserwriter on an Appletalk-Ethernet gatewayed net?
Yes.  There is one just down the hall from my office which I sometimes use.

>2. Can the Next feed from a Sun NFS server on Ethernet?
Yes.  My cube is both an NFS client and server.

>3. How tough is it to port from Next to Sun (using X, not NextStep of course)?
>   (I suppose this means "What are the main differences between the 2 Unixes?")
I'm not sure what you mean.  Are you trying to port "X" applications to
NeXT, or vanilla unix sources?  "X" is not shipped by NeXT, although a
3rd party "xnext" is available.  I've played with an X11R3 version and
found it quite buggy.  I haven't seen the X11R4 version yet, but rumors
have it that it is much better.  If you really mean "what is UNIX like?",
then you will find it very similar to any BSD unix.  I have ported lots of
stuff from SunOS to NeXT without even thinking about it.

>4. What applications would you see as replacing the following Mac applications:
Good question.  I am not a MAC user, so I will leave this to someone else.

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Marc Majka   System Manager   UBC Computer Science