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From: dorner@uxg.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: NeXT mail system // CMU Andrew System // "groupware" software
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Date: 24 Oct 88 15:04:34 GMT
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In article <2463@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM> mayer@hplabsz.UUCP (Niels Mayer) writes:
>
>the mailer has any particularly elaborate filing and searching
>capabilities. If it does, I'd love to hear about 'em. 

Supposedly you can put your mail into a text indexing and retrieval system.

>And what of voice mail. How does that work? Is voice data compressed,
>uuencoded, and attached to the mail file sent across the networks? 

Yes.

>I've heard rumours that there are some connections between the Andrew
>project at CMU and NeXT. In particular, that NextStep is layered ontop
>of something akin to the andrew toolkit.

NextStep is not based on Andrew.  For one thing, it uses NFS as its basic
file-sharing mechanism.  It IS based on the CMU operating system Mach.
Being only passingly familiar with Andrew, I can't comment on whether
or not they have duplicated Andrew features.
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