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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: IAC (was Re: Clipboard (was Re: The Amiga's Future))
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Date: 10 Jun 91 09:31:00 GMT
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Quoted from <1991Jun9.185504.4631@neon.Stanford.EDU> by torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie):
> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:

> >    Isn't the meat and potatoes of networking access to files on other
> >    machines?
> 
>   Only in the first generation of networking.  The current generation
> is to use the network for collaborative work.  Products in this

    Which is the basic (meat and potatoes) generation? Enough said.

    Well, almost enough - granted BYTE isn't a wonderful thing, but they
    discuss aspects of networking from time to time and "groupware" seems
    to be portrayed as a sort of experimental extra.

    Shared data I can imagine being very useful (database servers, source
    code management, et al). But glorified secretarial work like arranging
    appointments?

> Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?       torrie@cs.stanford.edu
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