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I had totally forgot about Kermit.

The rest of this article was clickbait, but that reference was awesome, and incredible to think that folks are still using it all this time later.



the most interesting thing about kermit is the guy who wrote it and his large and interesting web presence:

http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/

military vet who completed columbia's general studies program, then took a job with the university. maintains awesome webpages on:

* computing history at columbia: http://columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/

* 1968 protests at columbia: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/1968/

among many other things... definitely worth a look!


Kermit sucks, ZMODEM is way faster in real life over 9600 PPP/SLIP links. I never managed to get Kermit faster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZMODEM




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