[Swordmaker]

Apple made their bed back in the day when IBM was working to get PC's talking to IBM mainframes and other enterprise networks, and Jobs declared that any such integration would be considered heresy in the Apple ecosystem.

Please show me the documentation for you assertion. Apple was using TCP/IP stacks and addressing back as part of the Mac in the 80s. Apple talk had adapters for Ethernet 10 that worked quite well. I've still got some of them in a box out in my garage. Where is this Jobs' declaration?

[tacticalogic]

Please show me the documentation for you assertion. Apple was using TCP/IP stacks and addressing back as part of the Mac in the 80s. Apple talk had adapters for Ethernet 10 that worked quite well. I've still got some of them in a box out in my garage. Where is this Jobs' declaration?

Back in the 80s IBM mainframes used Token Ring local area networks. Terminals were 3270, over SNA or SDLC. If you wanted to talk to them, you made adapters for those protocols.

[tacticalogic]

Here's a little walk down memory lane for you.

[roadcat]

Apple made their bed back in the day when IBM was working to get PC's talking to IBM mainframes and other enterprise networks, and Jobs declared that any such integration would be considered heresy in the Apple ecosystem.

Yes, tacticalogic doesn't know what he's talking about. In my shops, we were using IRMA boards in both Macs and PCs in the 1980s thru early 1990s, and there was no problem trading files around the network. They both "spoke" to our IBM mainframes besides to each other. I still have a Mac IIcx with an IRMA board, retired from its work in the mid 1990s. Before the Macs came along, I was using my Apple II at work linked to IBM PCs with off the shelf software in the early 1980s. No problem trading files.