What are some of the typical applications for MachTen?
MachTen opens up new markets for Apple to offer Macs and Power Macs as inexpensive UNIX and X software development platforms. It also lets users integrate every Macintosh in the environment with all the other processors in the enterprise — it doesn’t even have to be UNIX-based — anything TCP/IP-based can interoperate with a Macintosh. On the one hand, MachTen is an inexpensive UNIX development environment; on the other hand, it is an excellent connectivity tool for the Macintosh. MachTen can turn a Macintosh into a complete Internet server or a high-performance X terminal.