It is possible for a Macintosh II to have simultaneous access of an AppleShare
file server and a UNIX machine. There are two ways to go about this.
The first way is to use K-Term and K-TALK/Host software. K-Term provides a
multi-window terminal emulator for the Macintosh. With it, a single Macintosh
can emulate as many as four terminals for any UNIX host computer running
K-TALK/Host via the same LocalTalk cable. By making AppleTalk protocols
available to the UNIX system, this software makes it possible for the UNIX
system to communicate with AppleTalk devices.
Important: To run K-Term and K-TALK/Host softwares, the Kinetics FastPath
gateway box is required between the UNIX machine and AppleTalk.
The second way is to combine UNIX and LocalTalk with NCSA Telnet 2.2 software.
This package provides interactive access from a Macintosh II to Telnet hosts on
TCP/IP networks. The hardware configuration requires a Macintosh connected to
AppleTalk and a Kinetics FastPath that connects AppleTalk to Ethernet.
Note: Telnet is public domain software from The National Center for
Supercomputing Applications at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.