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Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
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Date: 19 Dec 89 02:01:49 GMT
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From article <23147@brunix.UUCP>, by rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony):
>> Phone companies will never wire EtherNet. Fiber optics look good for that.
> I think we don't talk about vaporware? ...the NeXT has to work NOW...

Granted. But we were talking about hard-wiring EtherNet on the NeXT motherboard.
In the Mac, you drop in a card. Later you can drop in a fiber-optics card. Now,
this is not a specific advantage (or at least I am not attempting to show that
this is a specific advantage here).

Rather, I was trying to show that putting Ether on the motherboard and not
also including enough open architecture features was probably not the best
design decision.
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