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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: Letter to Unix Today re: Crossings: From Mac to Unix, p18 9/3/90
Message-ID: <11237@claris.com>
Date: 7 Sep 90 20:34:46 GMT
References: <1990Sep5.191401.26609@nbc1.ge.com> <TIME.90Sep6153629@crane.aa.ox.com>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <TIME.90Sep6153629@crane.aa.ox.com> time@ice.com 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.

Since Tim has let the cat out of the bag, let me jump in here and say that
uMail really does bring the Mac up a giant step in the Mac connectivity game.

I've been beta testing it and it has performed very well.  It truly turns
the mac into a full UUCP/Usenet end node.  Not only does it have a real
Mac UI, but it works quite happily in the background under
MultiFinder doing it's modem things with very little impact to foreground
work (And people still claim that the Mac doesn't "really" multitask...)

Great work Tim!


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