Global connectivity. (Software Review) (review of nine Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol terminal emulation packages)(includes related articles on Apple's TCP/IP blueprint, freeware and shareware available via TCP/IP, Editors' Choices) (Evaluation)

Macworld, October, 1993 by Snyder, Joel

If you need to connect Macintoshes to the wide world of corporate computers, TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is probably your best choice. TCP/IP has become the common language of internetworking. First used on government and university networks, this protocol was quickly accepted as a standard and evolved into the protocol of choice for Internet communications as well as for connecting disparate machines within a corporate network.

Whether your Macintosh users need to send files to a VAX in Frankfurt, read mail from a DOS PC in Moscow, or access data on the ...