On Aug 10, 2011, at 5:19 PM, Steve Craft wrote:
What about grabbing A/UX (http://www.opus1.com/www/jms/machten.html) ?
If you can find a copy and don't mind repartitioning your disk, and
your Mac has an MMU and an FPU, then that might work.
Josh
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Subject: Re: Using a Mac Classic II as a terminal
On Aug 10, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Zingus J. Rinkle wrote:
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.
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