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by peter_tonoli 2487 days ago
Slirp was the equivalent of a userland, and user accessible version of SLIP. It allowed end users, to have IP equivalent connectivity if they had a shell account.

This was in the days when people had dial-in accounts to a shell, and wanted to use Mosaic web browser on their machines.

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Amiga Mosaic and FTP, also. :)