Re: OS X was: NTLK Re: newtontalk V1 #81

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin@fanniemae.com)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2000 - 08:08:51 CDT


Robert Benschop wrote:
>
> on 06-08-2000 8:54, Laurent Daudelin at nemesys@cox.rr.com wrote:
>
> > Folks, come on, NeXT technology is *far* ahead every offering right now. I
> > won't start arguing with you, but check your facts before making those kind
> > of unfounded affirmations.
>
> Thanks for the developers insight, did read so many comments that Open Step
> was "just" UNIX that I didn't feel so positive about OS X anymore, you made
> me look more expectantly to the future.
>
> > BTW, I did a little test this afternoon. I've launched NCU in Classic. I did
> > connect my Newton without any problem to it. I've used the keyboard and did
> > install a package on my Newton, all of this under OS X!!!
>
> Even better, I know quite a few Mac users have voiced concern about this,
> BTW, did you manage an Appletalk connection (or was this dropped in OS X as
> some rumors had it that were circulating quite a while back)
>
> Robert Benschop
>
> P.S.
> better titles from people that answer digest postings are a recurrent theme
> as well ;-)

Sorry about the title! I was posting from home where I'm receiving the
digest ;-)

The connection was ethernet over AppleTalk. Naturally, having a B&W, I
couldn't test the serial connection, since there are no serial ports on
B&W...

-Laurent.
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