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I like your idea and I'd not heard of CoprocessorJS. If I had only a serial port for networking (e.g. the Mac Classic I wish I'd never parted with), I'd be tempted to emulate tail -f on the Mac side sending to the filesystem on the "remote" machine but not bi-directional. But, IIRC, AppleTalk to ethernet adaptors existed I think so maybe that's the route I'd go.

Writing on the Mac to a remote file for onward processing is cool, so have fun.

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I developed CoprocessorJS to assist with building out these sorts apps. I used it to develop this application and one that I posted a few months ago for interacting with iMessages: https://github.com/CamHenlin/MessagesForMacintosh I have a few other ideas for classic Mac apps that I’ll use CoprocessorJS for as well

Here’s a blog post explaining my reasoning behind CoprocessorJS: https://henlin.net/2021/12/21/Introducing-CoprocessorJS/

Thanks for the links and enjoyed reading about your technical creativity. I hadn't appreciated the extent of the C library on the Mac side. Lots of possibilities for integration.

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