Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Internet Adapter
     
         The Internet Adapter (TIA).  A program
        from {Cyberspace Development} which runs on a {Unix} shell
        account and acts as a {SLIP} {emulator}.  A TIA emulated SLIP
        account is not quite the same as a real SLIP account but TIA's
        SLIP emulation is completely standard in terms of working with
        {MacTCP}-based software on the {Macintosh} (or {WinSock} on a
        {Microsoft Windows} machine).
     
        You do not get your own {Internet Address} as you do with a
        real SLIP account, instead, TIA uses the IP number of the
        machine it runs on and "redirects" traffic back to you.  You
        cannot set up your machine as an {FTP} {server}, for instance,
        since there's no IP number for an {FTP} {client} elsewhere to
        connect to.
     
        TIA's performance is reportedly good, faster than normal SLIP
        in fact, and about as fast as {Compressed SLIP}.  Future
        releases will support {CSLIP} and even {PPP}.
     
        {Cyberspace Development} has ported TIA to several versions of
        {Unix} and more are on the way.
     
        {TERM} is a free program which performs a similar function
        between two machines both running {Unix}.
     
        {Home (http://marketplace.com/)}.
     
        {Setting up TIA
        (http://www.webcom.com/~llarrow/tiarefg.html)}.
     
        {Telnet (telnet://marketplace.com)}.
     
        {Gopher (gopher://marketplace.com/)}.
     
        {FTP (ftp://marketplace.com/tia/)}.
     
        E-mail: .
     
        (1995-04-12)