5 Nov
2012
5 Nov
'12
7:26 p.m.
On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Schindler Patrik wrote:
MacTCP 2.1 has been patched so you can enter fields similar to OpenTransport
TCP/IP-Settings. Watch out for it!
Do you have a copy of MacTCP already patched to 2.1? Every time I try to
do the patch myself, it aborts with an "Error -50".
System 6 doesn't really natively understand
networking. 7.0 does, but
only speaks Appletalk unaided. 7.5 has a vague notion of what TCP/IP
is but doesn't really approve of it. :?)
I disagree; MacTCP is a little funky, but I've used it to great
effect on 7.1 and 7.5 systems (and with somewhat more difficulty
on 6.x, but finding applications supporting TCP and 6.x can be
a challenge). Btw, Apps: Don't even think about running any
browser under anything older
than OS X 10.3.9. Most sites nowadays use HTML-features, old browsers just
don't understand. Either they look crappy or some JavaScript crashes Netcrap
or Internet Exploder. Most don't understand PNG-Graphics. I won't even talk
of NCSA Mosaic or some text-only browsers. (I did not test iCab recently.)
And if that's not enough, running Netcrab 4.5 even on a PMac 7100/66 is
painfully slow compared to what I'm used to from my main Mac (Dual PMac
G5 at 2GHz). And this machine is also a few years old...
I'm not terribly interested in running a web browser on this machine.
I'll be fine using telnet, ftp, gopher, irc, and maybe ssh (if such a
beast exists).
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