Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!news From: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Letter to Unix Today re: Crossings: From Mac to Unix, p18 9/3/90 Message-ID: <26E6E874.89B@intercon.com> Date: 7 Sep 90 00:23:16 GMT References: <1990Sep5.191401.26609@nbc1.ge.com> Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: kdb@macaw.intercon.com (Kurt Baumann) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 22 In article , time@crane.aa.ox.com (Tim Endres) writes: > > In regards to the Unix<-->Mac connectivity, ICE Engineering is about > to relaese uMail, a Macintosh UUCP/Mail/News product running on the > CTB, allowing it to operate over AppleTalk, MACTCP, MacISDN, and > MacX.25, as well as via the usual modem connections. This product is > the only one of its kind for the Macintosh, and certainly provides a > new level of connectivity for the Macintosh. Hurumph. Well let's not forget about TCP/Connect and TCP/Connect II which have been on the market for over two years. TCP/Connect II contains NNTP, SMTP/POP, SLIP (for your serial connections), as well as other TCP/IP connectivity applications. Anyway, yes I would have to agree that the Mac is better connected than the PC, but then I have a bias. -- Kurt Baumann 703.709.9890 703.709.9896 FAX