Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years (and working with a decades-old C codebase)
- 1981 was a different time for computing.
- It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was far from a given that machines from one vendor would be able to talk to those from another.
- In fact, Columbia University had just such a problem, so in 1981, Frank da Cruz and Bill Catchings designed a serial protocol they called Kermit.
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- 1981 was a different time for computing.
- It was expensive (both hardware and software), and it was far from a given that machines from one vendor would be able to talk to those from another.
- In fact, Columbia University had just such a problem, so in 1981, Frank da Cruz and Bill Catchings designed a serial protocol they called Kermit.
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