[comp.sys.mac] NeXT not open architecture?

eht@f.word.cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer) (12/20/89)

In article <3362@hub.UUCP> 6600pete@hub.UUCP writes:
>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.

In what way is the NeXT lacking in open architecture features?  If you mean
that they have lagged in getting a Bus interface chip to hardware developers
I can agree.  But otherwise, pending development of the hardware, you can
plug anything you want in the remaining slots.
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