rhp@INEL.GOV (Robert Powell) (01/13/90)
Thanks to all of you who responded to my plea for help in connecting our
NeXT to a twisted-pair network. Sorry I haven't gotten back to all of you
personally, I got a LOT of responses.
Our building is wired with a twisted-pair network from Ungerman-Bass. Our
network people are getting a box from them which should allow us to hook up
the NeXT with no problem. From what I understand, the box goes in our
network switch room, I think the box is a transceiver. The wire going to
my office is hooked up to the box. Then, in my office a cable goes directly
from the wall to the thin-net connector on the NeXT. The box will be here
"real soon now", we'll see if it works. If not, I'll probably order the
Etherport 2NL board from Kinetics, which has both thick-net and twisted-pair
connectors on it.
As we have starting learning Objective-C, a question has arisen:
Q: Does Objective-C permit multiple inheritance? Can a class have more
than one super-class?
Please, any help would be appreciated. We are sending one of our people
to the NeXT Developer's Course "Programming the NeXT Computer" on the
23rd of this month. He's going to try to find out, but it would be nice
to know now, and from someone that has actually done it.
Concerning the NeXT public domain disk being put together by Lighthouse
Design, Ltd.: Since we're not on the net YET, it would be nice to have
that stuff as soon as possible. So, as soon as it becomes available, I
would like information on how to order it.
To Edward Jung of The Deep Thought Group: We would be very interested in
being part of a NeXT Developer's Association (or whatever it ends up being
called). We would be willing to pay, but how much depends on what
membership benefits would exist.
We enjoy our NeXTs very much, though they are sluggish at times. I am
encouraged to see that WordPerfect, among others, has recently annouced
that they are bringing programs to the NeXT.
Bob
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