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From: martin@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Daniel Martin)
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Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Multimedia..
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Date: 21 May 91 23:35:34 GMT
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In article <21753@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
>In article <1991May16.140513.4946@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) writes:
>>There are lots of other things a NeXT will do much more easily than an Amiga, 
>>like exist cleanly in an ethernet university environment. 
>
>That's absolute bunk.  My Amiga here has been existing cleanly in an Ethernet
>based engineering environment since before NeXT existed, period.
>Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests"

   Well, it's true that there was an ethernet solution (by Ameristar, now 
a Commodore product) before the NeXT went public.  

   His statement is true in at least one way:  the NeXT validates the user 
and can be "trusted" in a network.  This is not yet the case under AmigaDos.  
I can set my uid/gid to anything, and have unrestricted access to the mounted 
partitions.  In our network, we 'restricted' our amigas to 'ftp' and 'login' 
(pathetic :-().  

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