Internet Adapter
<networking, product> The Internet Adapter (TIA). A program
from {Cyberspace Development} which runs on a {Unix} shell
account and acts as a {SLIP} {emulator}. A TIA emulated SLIP
account is not quite the same as a real SLIP account but TIA's
SLIP emulation is completely standard in terms of working with
{MacTCP}-based software on the {Macintosh} (or {WinSock} on a
{Microsoft Windows} machine).
You do not get your own {Internet Address} as you do with a
real SLIP account, instead, TIA uses the IP number of the
machine it runs on and "redirects" traffic back to you. You
cannot set up your machine as an {FTP} {server}, for instance,
since there's no IP number for an {FTP} {client} elsewhere to
connect to.
TIA's performance is reportedly good, faster than normal SLIP
in fact, and about as fast as {Compressed SLIP}. Future
releases will support {CSLIP} and even {PPP}.
{Cyberspace Development} has ported TIA to several versions of
{Unix} and more are on the way.
{TERM} is a free program which performs a similar function
between two machines both running {Unix}.
(http://marketplace.com/).
Setting up TIA
(http://webcom.com/~llarrow/tiarefg.html).
{Telnet (telnet://marketplace.com)}.
{Gopher (gopher://marketplace.com/)}.
FTP (ftp://marketplace.com/tia/).
E-mail: <[email protected]>.
(1995-04-12)