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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NeXT press release (very long but interesting)
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Date: 14 Oct 88 18:26:15 GMT
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In article <635@ardent.UUCP> kmw@ardent.UUCP (Ken Wallich) writes:
>One omission I noticed was that there was no mention of serial ports, or
>an integral modem.  I guess I have to hook it up via ethernet to a box that 
>*does* have serial ports (like perhaps, a Mac? :-) if I want to hook up my 

I haven't read this anywhere. But a friend of mine told me
yesterday that NeXT uses a thin Ethernet connection and that
a box to convert to standard Ethernet costs a couple of hundred
dollars.