[HECnet] Digital team link & pathworks for MacOS

[Jason Stevens]

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I'll have to add an automated search if it ever comes up...

I patched Basilisk II to have libpcap support so I could use AppleTalk to Windows NT servers.  It'd be cool to have it talk to a VAX.

On November 20, 2016 12:20:39 AM GMT+08:00, "John H. Reinhardt" <johnhreinhardt at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>On 11/19/2016 10:18 AM, Jason Stevens wrote:
>> I just scored a random lot of Amiga diskettes, and buried in the
>stacks was a demo sales presentation for Team computing, team links,
>all in one and all kinds of 1992 awesome graphics on this demo disk.
>>
>> In the middle it does mention pathworks for MacOS.  Does anyone know
>if it was a separate product like pathworks for MS-DOS or later Windows
>NT was?
>>
>> And the team link software, I suspect it was a big deal to roll out? 
>I get the impression it ran on the MIPS based hardware, and maybe the
>VAX?  Anyone ever use it?  It looks like it may have been an enterprise
>contender, well until the rise of NT.
>>
>> The demo presentation is for MS-DOS, I can send it to anyone if they
>want it, it's about 2MB uncompressed.
>>
>
>The DEC Pathworks for Mac OS, given the date, was naturally for the Pre
>OS X versions. I ran it on Mac OS 8 and 9 when I worked at Wright Labs
>in Dayton.  I don't know if it would work in the Classic environment
>available in OS X 10.1-10.4, I suspect not.  I believe it was a
>separate product but I don't have any documentation left to prove it.
>
>John H. Reinhardt

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