[ih] NCSA & TCP on Mac, was Re: Hello, Internet History group

[David Finnigan]

On 18 Mar 2025 12:18 pm, Gaige B. Paulsen via Internet-history wrote:
> Yep, InterCon’s products were built from the original work that Tim
> Krauskopf and I did on the TCP/IP stack for NCSA Telnet.
> The original versions of NCSA Telnet (1985/1986) used an AppleTalk
> (LocalTalk) gateway that came out of Stanford (SEAGATE, the Stanford
> Ethernet-AppleTalk Gateway) and commercialized by Kinetics. Our SLIP
> implementation came quite a bit later, and the PPP implementation a
> bit later than that. I honestly don’t think we ever released a version
> of SLIP for the internal stack, only with MacTCP.
> I’m happy to discuss any of the particulars of what we did back in the 
> day.
> I’m not sure if Kurt or Amanda are on the list here, but they’re
> definitely still around.
> -Gaige

As a side project, I began researching other TCP implementations for 
Macintosh, and this is the web page that I put together:
https://macgui.com/sabina/other_tcp.html

An unanswered question was whether Apple's MacTCP was an original 
implementation, or a port or adaptation of some existing code.

-David Finnigan