The way I read it you wanted the 128k to do SLIP or PPP. Both can be done, but you have to basically duplicate the functionality of MacTCP in a small memory space.
Actually, that isn't what I wanted at all. Charlieman has already done
a lot of testing down this route. And it would be very difficult. Also, I seriously doubt it is possible on a 128K. Based on information included in Inside Macintosh, the way the 128K manages memory would require some herculean efforts to maintain a network connection of any kind, which is likely the reason AppleShare was never implemented for it. Obviously it managed a 1200k dial-up connection, so presumably one could look there for a solution. But I suspect running a TCP/IP stack of any size and trying to manage, the System, Finder, a GUI terminal or other communications package would be well beyond the abilities of a 128K. The whole idea sprang out of the notion that many of the BBS/Internet bridge technologies were UNIX based to begin with and the Mac OS is now too. Even if the software doesn't exist to set this up in OS X, the speed, RAM, and standardization of programming technologies would make it a more appropriate platform than trying to re-engineer the software for a 128/512K Mac.
So install MacTerminal and you are done. Finished, end of project.
How is this a solution for the project? I still have no way to bridge the output from MacTerminal to the Internet and vice/versa. Which was the whole point.
