TCP/IP wasn't bundled with the OS until System 7.5 (in 1994), before that it was sold separately ($60!)
Re:ReStuff
by jrochkind1 on Saturday November 28, 2020 @10:41AM
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thanks for correction!
I'm not totally sure who the audience is for this hobby project even! It says people running Mac OS System 6, which was released in 1988, replaced by System 7 in 1991. (If you were running System 7,or system 8 released in 97, or system 9 released in 99 -- you wouldn't need this converter). I do wonder who these people are running a 1988 Mac OS release, on what hardware, and what they are doing!
A Mac OS System 6 machine CAN connect to the internet, but barely, I think this may have been the first version that did TCP/IP built into the OS, but it was finnicky. It got a lot more solid in System 7.