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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Subject: Re: NeXT as Mac server?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.003022.7356@csus.edu>
- Sender: news@csus.edu
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- Organization: San Francisco State University
- References: <ward1.713544494@husc8> <1992Aug12.140612.10627@ldp.com> <1992Aug13.041127.8872@cubetech.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 00:30:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.041127.8872@cubetech.com>
- andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
- >No, 3.0 only lets you become an AppleShare _client_ and not a
- >sever. You'll need something like uShare to get the Macs talking
- >TCP/IP and NFS to let the NeXT be a server.
-
- I think you missed the point; improvements in 3.0 (relative to
- 2.x) will make it significantly easier to adapt things like
- CAP and netatalk to run "native."
-
- My only direct experience with uShare is with the Sun version.
- Let's just say that I'm not impressed; it does pretty much the
- bare minimum. Even if uShare were free and didn't have obnoxious
- copy protection, I'd prefer one of the others.
-
- Fortunately for IPT, NeXT "forgot" to send me 3.0 prereleases, so
- I haven't been personally responsible for decimating their market
- share. Someone else probably will.
-
- -=EPS=-
-