Decius wrote:
Thank You! If someone had done this, say, 20 years ago macs might have actually been useful for BBSing and apple might have been in a better place in the market.

Um, recall that Macs were black n white screens in 1986. It wasn't until the Mac II was introduced that color was available, and yes, there was a terminal application available at the time (I can't recall the name. It may have been ZTerm or the VT102 app that Apple made for DEC) that allowed color ANSI text. I used it to BBS and connect to GEnie and Fidonet. Apple has very strong support for terminal emulation and connection back then. This was because the Mac II was sold primarily into high end workstation shops, so connections to Sun, SGI, DEC, Wang, and IBM systems was a MUST to get the PO signed. I've seen networks of dozens of Macs with token ring cards back then. Ick.

What WAS seriously missing from Macs was an IP stack. That didn't arrive until 92, and was SERIOUSLY limited (could only accept addresses in non-CIDR formats) and buggy. Literally, it wasn't until Open Transport appeared in the mid 90s and stabilized in the late 90s that Mac's IP support was robust enough to do anything serious. Funny story: the first servers for BlueStar were actually 6100 Power Macs. They ran SMTP, POP, HTTP/FTP, and DNS.

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