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This developer was doing just fine with NSCA Telnet to do UNIX work. Without a terminal emulator I couldn't have justified owning a Mac.
by biztos 7y ago
This developer was doing just fine with NSCA Telnet to do UNIX work. Without a terminal emulator I couldn't have justified owning a Mac.
- pjmlp 7y agoSo not Apple's target audience of Mac developers, developing Mac software.
- biztos 7y agoNot that target audience, definitely. But I wouldn't underestimate how much productive software was used on Macs via Telnet, at corporations and at universities as well as by random hackers who loved the Mac GUI.
- pjmlp 7y agoI kind of would, given how little presence Mac OS (pre-OS X) had outside US market. We were all using a mix of MS-DOS/Windows, Amiga and Ataris. What I remember was getting Small-C and K&R C compilers to kind of get corporation/university work done at home, no one was that rich enough to pay for telnet connections over long term dialups.