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From: bdavis@nic.cerf.net (Barry Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: UPDATE: Mac as an X terminal over a serial line
Summary: MacNet or other MacOS SLIP kernel ??
Keywords: SLFP MacTCP MacX
Message-ID: <352@nic.cerf.net>
Date: 24 Apr 91 15:50:53 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.060749.29487@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Organization: CERFnet;  La Jolla, CA
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In article <1991Apr24.060749.29487@terminator.cc.umich.edu>, rjc@css.itd.umich.edu (Robert John Churchill) writes:
> Mark S. Johnson writes:
>    [deleted]
> >The bottom line (based on several informative replies) is that the Mac
> >CANNOT (yet) be used as an X terminal over a serial line under the
> >MacOS.  One CAN use SLIP and MacX under A/UX, however.
>  
> Actually, it is possible.  I'm using a SLFP developed here at the
> University of Michigan (its buggy, though, and I can't redistribute
> it, sorry) with MacTCP and MacX to dial in to my office's Unix machines
> over my 9600 modem.  Works fine,...
>   [deleted]
>
>   Robert_John_Churchill@um.cc.umich.edu

Would MacNet (Mac-based KA9Q) be useable as a SLIP driver for MacX?  How
about NCSA Telnet, since it is similar to MacTCP?  InterConnect II?
Any ideas?


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