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2.18 Can I mix different hardware running NEXTSTEP?

Of course! NEXTSTEP is design to plug and play with existing NeXT installations. NeXT has addressed interoperability between NEXTSTEP systems in the following ways:

• NEXTSTEP systems share identical networking capabilities.
• NEXTSTEP systems share the same Distributed Objects.
• NEXTSTEP systems use the same system and network administration services.
• NEXTSTEP systems use the same mass storage format. Yes, you can take a external SCSI drive, removable media (e.g. Bernoulli etc) or floppy disk and use it interchangeably between NeXT Computers running NEXTSTEP.

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