alt Hacker News? The only reference I see is
> MacTCP is wonderful, but it is old, and on a 4 MB Mac Classic with a SCSI Wi-Fi/Ethernet adapter like BlueSCSI it can be slow to answer, hungry for memory, and awkward to set up.
Which... I don't own a Mac Classic, so I can't speak it its factual accuracy, but that doesn't sound like bashing.
I'll bash it: MacTCP is awful. The first several versions of Open Transport with System 7.5.x were somehow even worse. And MacPPP was an abomination.
I like to show people Hunter Cressall's parody of the Switchers ad campaign to remind/educate them that the Macs of yore were no panacea. It's hilarious and spot-on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEvYETWVK6M
Source: I accidentally became the other Mac guy at an ISP in-era (1995?).