11 Apr
2011
11 Apr
'11
10:38 p.m.
Kermit in use here daily. Used for connections between my many DEC systems
and the non-DEC world
Regards
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Rod Smallwood
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-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Torfinn Ingolfsen
Sent: 11 April 2011 21:18
To: General Discussion: On-Topic Posts Only
Subject: Re: [IP] Fwd: Columbia terminates Kermit Project after 30 years
(fwd)
Hi,
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Geoff Oltmans <oltmansg at bellsouth.net>
wrote:
Does anyone in any real sense use Kermit these days?
Even back during my
bbs days Kermit was a rarely supported and/or slow protocol that
wasn't
exactly a first choice. Wasn't it designed for
slower packet switched
networks the likes of telenet and tymnet?
Well, I recently resurrected an old ND-Satellite/9 minicomputer from
Norsk Data. The machine doesn't have any network interfaces, except
for terminal (serial) ports. However, it did have kermit on one of the
8 inch floppies that I got with the machine.
I still use kermit to transfer files to and from that machine.
Very handy.
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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen