MacTCP
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Part of earlier versions of MacOS that provided access to TCP/IP services. Apple removed MacTCP from MacOS in revision 7.5.3 in favor of the new OpenTransport (OT) TCP/IP stack. However, MacTCP lives on as a community development effort.
See also MacPPP.
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Initially, we had problems with reliability, which were traced to MacTCP, the Macintosh implementation of the TCP/IP network protocol.
MACTCP: Macintosh's version of the Transmission Control Protocol, backbone of the Internet.
At last the company informed me that before I could get access to the Web I would need three more applications: MacTCP, InterSLIP and Netscape Navigator or another Web browser).
In exasperation, I bought "The Internet Starter Kit" which includes a disk containing InterSLIP and MacTCP.
Book includes a diskette providing MacTCP, InterSLIP, Eudora, and other Macintosh applications that greatly increase users' enjoyment and efficiency in working on the Net.
On the Macintosh platform the standard interface is provided through MacTCP, while on Windows machines the standard interface is known as Windows Sockets (WINSOCK).
LAN WorkPlace for DOS and MacTCP for Macintosh client software were then installed on respective network nodes.
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