alt Hacker NewsI'm reading it as they used the IBM AT as a serial terminal, running QMODEM as the terminal emulator, for a Linux host that was connected to the Internet via modem.
I'm reading it as they used the IBM AT as a serial terminal, running QMODEM as the terminal emulator, for a Linux host that was connected to the Internet via modem.
Saying "share the internet connection" is quite a stretch though if you just had a terminal connection to some other host which then connected to the internet. I'd associate "sharing a connection" with some (perhaps NATed) IP routing. And they mention NAT, thus my question.