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From: dela@ee.rochester.edu (Del Armstrong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT as a gateway; second ethernet board
Summary: Add in boards not yet available
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.173121.17530@ee.rochester.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 17:31:21 GMT
References: <9666@thor.acc.stolaf.edu> <4474@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: dela@ee.rochester.edu (Del Armstrong)
Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering
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In article <4474@ur-cc.UUCP> aisl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Landry) writes:
>In article <9666@thor.acc.stolaf.edu> cdr@sachiko.acc.stolaf.edu (Craig D. Rice, St. Olaf College) writes:
>>Hi!  Does anyone know of a third-party ethernet board for the NeXT?
>>We'd like to have a NeXT gatewaying between our campus backbone and
>>a NeXT network, but can't seem to find anyone that sells a second
>>ethernet board.
>
>Kinetics is supposed to have an ethernet board that will allow thick net
>connections to the NeXT.  This may be your solution.
>

I've been told that nobody can ship add-in boards for the NeXT yet,
because NeXT hasn't started shipping the nubus interface chip one
needs to access the NeXT nubus.


			Del Armstrong

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