
It took until Window 3.1 before things got stable enough to use. No DOS version 2.* was sold to anybody who knew better just the same as any 4.* DOS. To top it all off, it was a standard joke among us geeks that Microsoft sold us betaware and then sold us the next version to fix the bugs we bought in the last iteration. Backward compatibility is one of the reasons that the PC remains dangerous to this day. It did make it possible for MSFT to rule the world as Steve Jobs took the opposite road. It left 5 designed holes in the OS that still are the main avenue for the hacker, malware and viruses.
The Config.sys allowed anybody to make hardware for the PC and its clones. Converted to the PC in 1981 when my company declned to support Apple II or TRS-80. I've very long history with MSFT, having "coded" in Microsoft Basic on my TRS-80 model 1.
Run telnet by simply issuing the telnet command and the ip/port you want to connect to.I'm a faithful follower and purchaser (donator?) to Etrecheck.
First install Homebrew from your terminal ( warning: please don’t copy and paste code snippets from a web browser straight into your terminal, please double check your sources). At some point I'll change the name of this package to make it easier. Tap for telnet In MacOS 10.13, the one included with homebrew will work, but will not build in 10.14 due to i386 being deprecated. Added GRRLIB logo Added return to loader Opens port 80 Opens a socket and allows for connection Accepts connection on open socket at port 80. No longer needs telnet Forced use of HTTP/1.1 alpha v0.11: Serves html to telnet (lack of http headers) Can accept multiple connections (not at once) alpha v0.1: Added Gamecube control menu control. Homebrew Telnet Catalina Homebrew Telnet Homebrew Telnet There are a few different methods you can use to bring back telnet, including copying over the binaries from a Sierra install to /usr/local/bin (as seen here) or using a session manager like SecureCRT, but since I’ve been using Homebrew to manage a few other packages for a while now I figured I’d just go ahead and use that. I was both sad and excited to see that Apple removed telnet from Mac OS High Sierra, excited because telnet is a nearly 40 year old protocol that is highly insecure for network management and saddened because I often have to use telnet when at client sites.