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What are some of MachTens communications features that allow the Macintosh to interoperate with other UNIX workstations?

April 26, 2017communications features interoperate machten Macintosh Unix workstations

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What are some of MachTens communications features that allow the Macintosh to interoperate with other UNIX workstations?

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UNIX has a very rich set of communications protocols and file sharing software –Telnet, r-series, electronic mail, file transfer, and client and server NFS. MachTen provides this full complement of protocols for the Macintosh. With MachTen on your Macintosh, it is possible, for example, to store all Macintosh applications on the hard disk of a remote UNIX workstation and mount those applications on your Mac desktop with NFS. With MachTen, you can even mount Apple Share volumes on your Macintosh and then export those volumes using NFS. MachTen has line printer spooling capabilities, so it can send printer output to the printer of a remote UNIX workstation. Any Macintosh on your LAN can send its printer output to a MachTen Macintosh, and MachTen can subsequently spool that output to any printer in your UNIX environment. Likewise, UNIX workstations can spool printer output to a MachTen Macintosh and have that output printed on a Macintosh LaserWriter.