26 Feb
2004
26 Feb
'04
10:50 p.m.
It was thus said that the Great Vintage Computer Festival once stated:
It's funny how the Columbia folks put up a big FAQ trying to dispel
various rumors about how Kermit is slow and inefficient and how Kermit is
superior to everything because it will work under pretty much any
condition (line noise, funky hardware, etc.) "out of the box" and ... it
doesn't. Foo.
In my experience, Kermit worked when *everything* else failed, and for
several years was the *only* was to get files into and out of my college
over the dialup lines.
Then again, I was usually transfering single files ...
-spc (It worked, but talk about ssssllllooooooowwwwwwwww ... )