Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!hsdndev!husc6!ukma!aunro!ersys!drin From: ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Adrian Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT questions Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 91 17:11:56 GMT References: <208@gouche.UUCP> Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems, Edmonton, AB, Canada Lines: 38 grant@gouche.UUCP (Grant Munsey) writes: > Just read the FAQ and still have a couple 'o ?s > I havn't gotten my slab yet so I don't have manuals. > 1) I have a very old Apple LaserWriter. Am I going to be able > to use this in a well integrated fashion on th NeXT? Don't know. I still can't *afford* a printer yet... :-) > 2) I have a Trailblazer T2500 modem. Do the serial ports on the > NeXT support hardware handshake and can they go at > 9600 baud? Yes and yes. > 3) I would like to network the NeXT to a i386 running Interactive > Unix (vers 2.2). Are there any known 'nasty suprises' I am going > to run into using thin wire ethernet and NFS? Not as far as I know. NFS seems to work just fine. > 4) Is the NeXT impl of 4.3bsd fairly faithful...will I finally be able > to compile programs from the net without the SYSVizeing them? Seems to be fairly faithful - I haven't had any problems. (Contradictions welcome :-) ) > 5) As shipped (with the std 8 meg) is the slab populated with 1 meg > by 8 simms or are the 4 meg by 8? 1 meg x 8. You have to pull a bank of four and drop in four 4 meg x 8 to increase memory. > > Thanks, > -- > Grant Munsey, Mainticore, Inc. (408) 733-3838 > grant@gouche.portal.com or {uunet!opusys,decwrl!apple!portal}!gouche!grant