How the Mac was born... supposedly...

Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Thu Jan 13 20:10:14 CST 2005


Cameron Kaiser wrote:
>>Yes, our founder made the fatal mistake of investing in X when he probably 
>>should have spent the money on a working TCP/IP implementation.
> 
> Now that's a real shame, because one of my dreams is to have Secret Weapons
> of Commodore running on a Secret Weapon: the Commodore 900, which ran
> Coherent on a Z8001. Was there any kind of networking support at all?

None whatsoever.  Coherent may still have been killed by Linux, but it was 
killed at least 2-3 years early by the lack of TCP/IP networking (even PPP or 
SL/IP!)
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