However, similar functionality was rolled into ClarisWorks' terminal program.

spawned Claris in 1987 as its application software division, Claris continued development of most of Apple's major applications, but development of MacTerminal ceased. For example, the protocol analyzer in Serial Tools is just a sub-class of Terminal.m that supports a second serial.

It can be used as sample code for any Cocoa application that needs to communicate with a Mac OS X serial port through a text view. Apple began bundling MacTerminal with later Macintosh models. The terminal emulator (Terminal.m) in Serial Tools is an Objective-C extension of NSTextView class. Although MacTerminal was compatible with the original 128K model using Apple's optional 300 or 1200 bit/s external modem designed for the Apple II, MacTerminal was not available for general release at the 128K's launch date. MacTerminal was capable of emulating the DEC VT100 and other computer terminals.Īpple Computer began retailing MacTerminal in July 1984 following the launch of the Macintosh 128K (the first Apple Macintosh) in January. MacTerminal enabled users to connect via modem or serial port to bulletin board systems and online services (e.g., The Source, CompuServe), and to other computers. MacTerminal was the first telecommunications and terminal emulation application software program available for the classic Mac OS.