[Suns-at-Home] Apple Terminal

[Angus Fox]

On 1 Aug 2007, at 04:17, Scott Stevens wrote:

>
> I don't know if you can even run NetBSD on a Color Classic.  An SE/ 
> 30 is a far superior machine for that purpose.  It was awhile later  
> before Apple produced any hardware better than the SE/30, imho.
>

When I worked at 'TOPS' the Apple Networking division of Sun  
Microsystems (unbelievable but true), my two main computers were an  
SE/30 and a Sun 386i.

I loved them both, and we had an AppleTalk enabled version of the Sun  
Kernel provided by TOPS for the Sun which allowed the Sun machines to  
be file servers on a TOPS AppleTalk based network. TOPS had its own  
'fast AppleTalk' 'FlashTalk' chip as used on the PC AppleTalk cards  
which- was going to be on the SPARCstation1 but it was buggy and got  
pulled before first customer ship.

Getting back to the off topic :-) TOPS used to have a Mac based  
Telnet like product for AppleTalk called TOPS Terminal, which used  
AppleTalk not TCP/IP and consequently did not require MacTCP to get  
it to work but it did I think require an AppleTalk to Ethernet  
Gateway like a Shiva/Kinetics Fastpath to make it work. I probably  
still have a copy somewhere if anyone wants it. It was public domain  
anyway and Id just about forgotten about it till this thread reminded  
me.
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Angus Fox
angusf@mac.com