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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!news
  3. From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
  4. Subject: Re: NeXT as Mac server?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug16.081615.27578@csus.edu>
  6. Sender: news@csus.edu
  7. Reply-To: eps@cs.sfsu.edu
  8. Organization: San Francisco State University
  9. References: <1992Aug12.140612.10627@ldp.com> <1992Aug13.041127.8872@cubetech.com> <1992Aug14.003022.7356@csus.edu> <1992Aug16.003620.8729@cubetech.com>
  10. Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 08:16:15 GMT
  11. Lines: 19
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Aug16.003620.8729@cubetech.com>
  14.     andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) writes:
  15. >Yeah, but putting CAP in a LKS that would drive AppleTalk/Share over
  16. >the en interface (that worked well) would probably be a big job.
  17.  
  18. And a needless one too.  netatalk is *already* designed to live
  19. in the kernel.  The guys at UMich have had everything they need
  20. to port to 2.x for several months now, but haven't considered
  21. NeXTs a priority since they're just not sensing a lot of demand.
  22. That ol' "squeaky wheel" phenomenon.  :-)
  23.  
  24. (They're also so far behind on getting another release out the
  25. door, that adding support for *any* additional systems isn't
  26. going to happen for a while.)
  27.  
  28.                         -=EPS=-
  29. -- 
  30. Any platform that needs a .advocacy group isn't taken seriously
  31. in the Real World.
  32.