What about grabbing A/UX (http://www.opus1.com/www/jms/machten.html) ?


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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Joshua Juran
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 5:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Using a Mac Classic II as a terminal

On Aug 10, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Zingus J. Rinkle wrote:

> Zterm was the serial terminal under 68k, maybe it also did telnet, no 
> memories of that right now.

There may have been a Communications Toolbox (CTB) module for telnet, but I
never used one.  I think I used NCSA Telnet, BetterTelnet, and NiftyTelnet.

> If you want "the terminal" in the sense of a comamnd prompt prepare to 
> be baffled: there is NONE on the old macs

There *was* none.  There is now:

http://www.metamage.com/code/MacRelix/

It doesn't do any kind of terminal emulation, so it's no good for curses
apps, but it has bare-bones implementations of tcpcat, tcpclient, and htget.
TCP support currently depends on Open Transport, so you'll need System 7.5.x
or later for that.

> If instead you wish to run unix commands... MPW is what you want.

MPW is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Unix.  :-)  There are several
packages (besides MacRelix) that give you a Unix-like command shell in
classic Mac OS:  MacMiNT, PATMOS, Mac06, and MachTen, off  
the top of my head.  I don't think the first two provide networking.   
The latter two are proprietary.  All are unsupported.

Josh


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