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Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
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From article <23100@brunix.UUCP>, by rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony):
> The use of built in networking is pretty simple. Many people
> dont use it because it is expensive to upgrade. If however it
> is built in, then they will use it, as soon as they have a 
> chance.

Nope. Phone companies will never wire EtherNet. Too big and expensive.
Fiber optics look good for that. Soon as that goes through, the NeXT's
EtherNet will be a boat anchor. I don't have any faith in EtherNet for
personal workstations at all. It's great for academia at the moment,
which is what NeXT is for. But we're talking about whether NeXT can or
should bump Mac from the personal arena.

> Only after the used it just because they have it, they recognize
> the benefit and applications like mail take off.

Truthfully, I can hardly wait. Anyone who reads alt.cyber* can, too.

> C++ has not even a shot at the capabilites of Objective-C.

I'm not qualified to say anything about this except that Think C 4
does Objective C. Or a large subset. Someone's liable to chime in
about this any second now.
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