early desktop TCP/IP implementations (was Re: "first" computer on the internet)

Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> wrote: This would be Romkey's PC/IP; http://www.apocalypse.org/~romkey/from.html I think the original version handled only a single TCP connection at a time! Romkey went on to co-found FTP Software (whose clients (ie; FTP) bore a charming resemblance to their old-time (PDP-10) counterparts). I think PC/IP was also used as the basis for "NCSA Telnet" on the Mac, which despite it's name, also had an FTP server (there was a hotkey to send an FTP command to establish a connection (back) to the Mac's FTP server). I also seem to recall a PC version of NCSA Telnet. I still have a tote bag from the May 1992 InterOp in Washington D.C. The social was at the Smithsonian Air&Space Museum, and the sponsors (either of the social, or the event) were FTP Software, InterCon, and TGV -- all suppliers of third party TCP/IP (DOS, MacOS, and VMS respectively). My favorite 3rd party MacOS classic TCP/IP tool (probably MacTCP based) was Dartmouth's "Fetch", whose "working on it" active cursor was a running dog. I think someone reincarnated the "Fetch" name in recent history. Neon Software also made TCP/IP tools for the Mac (Apple Supplied only MacTCP-- the transport, but not any tools). The principal was Michael Swan, one of the original principals at Kinetics, orginators of the FastPath (a repackgaing of the Stanford SeaGate, which used a SUN (Stanford University Network) 68000 multibus card, and a hand wired SCC-based AppleTalk (LocalTalk) card. Intercon may have also been founded by one of the Kinetics guys... Ah yes, I remember it well. Shiva and Cayman (Brad's company) were both Boston based, and we joked that the developers of US AppleTalk/IP gateways could be wiped out in a single plane crash. Phil Budne (Shiva FastPath 5 project leader)