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From: dennisg@kgw2.bwi.WEC.COM (Dennis Glatting)
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Subject: Re: XNeXT-2.0, SLIP-2.0
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Date: 29 Mar 91 16:04:05 GMT
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In article <13821@helios.TAMU.EDU>, jsaxon@cs.tamu.edu (James B Saxon) writes:
|> Everybody's talking about XNeXT but the ftp site escapes me and archie...
|> So could somebody :-) let me in on this.  BTW, has Jobs changed is
|> mind on X?
|> 
|> Also, what's the scoop on this SLIP?  Is this the modem interface
|> we've been waiting for?
|> 

no.  ppp is better.

i've been working on sl/ip but am currently paused because i need two
machines to do kernal debugging.

one cannot just "port" current implementations to the NeXT.  the
kernel is different and under 2.0 other changes have been made.

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 ..!uunet!kgw2!dennisg  | Dennis P. Glatting
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