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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
Summary: Why you need ethernet...
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Date: 16 Dec 89 02:23:49 GMT
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The main thing with ethernet is, that it does not cost much
more than appletalk, if you put it on your mainboard. The user
saves only k$$ because he has not to finance the profit of a
second company, as you have to if you buy a ethernet card for 
the Mac. 
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. (After all they don't want to waste their money.)
Only after the used it just because they have it, they recognize
the benefit and applications like mail take off.

> OO has been with the Mac for 7 years.

Well there are OOL's and OOL's. C++ has not even a shot at the
capabilites of Objective-C. Sadly enough, it seems to become
a standard. The same holds true for the Mac. There is some OO
stuff in the Mac (after all they saw it at Xerox), but its not
even close to what NeXT offers (at least so far, and as we do
not want to start another vaporware war...)

Ronald
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