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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
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Date: 16 Dec 89 20:21:31 GMT
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>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 think we don't talk about vaporware? Normally you wire just 
your office. And if you need access to some other, national net, 
then there is no obsatcle to plug in a board into the NeXT to
allow for that. But the NeXT has to work NOW and not in a few
years when fiber optics are finally widespread. There are a lot
of companies using ethernet. And without floppies, DOS, MACos, 
there has to be some way to integrate the NeXT, and this is
the network.

Ronald
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