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

[Bill Woodcock]

Richard Ford or Garry Hornbuckle could answer that, they’re both still around. 
    
                -Bill


> On Mar 18, 2025, at 19:09, David Finnigan via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
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