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This article is from the MachTen & CodeBuilder FAQ, by Jaime Julca jjulca@tenon.com with numerous contributions by others.

07 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.

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