Why did Tenon develop MachTen?
Tenon’s goal was to “unlock” the processing power of personal computers and put them on an equal footing with workstations, minis, and mainframes. On one hand, MachTen brings UNIX applications and technology to the Macintosh desktop; on the other hand, it provides a vehicle for Macintosh users to access those larger functional capabilities and communications protocols that are fundamentally developed by the workstation community. These industry standard tools can be brought to the desktop where Macintosh applications are able to take advantage of them. It is a dual-directional approach. MachTen makes client/server computing available for everyone by lowering the price point of this capability by an order of magnitude. When Apple built the Macintosh, they called it a computer for “the rest of us”. MachTen is UNIX for “the rest of us”.
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