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That's Kermit in its very basic version, which is slow but has the advantage of working just about everywhere under extreme constraints. If you have an urge to
by jejones3141 11y ago
That's Kermit in its very basic version, which is slow but has the advantage of working just about everywhere under extreme constraints. If you have an urge to send data from your C-64 or Tandy CoCo to a Burroughs B5500, there is or was probably a version of Kermit for each that would let you do it. Later Kermits had large packets, sliding windows, and ways to specify what characters needed special encoding.
- NoGravitas 11y agoYep. A properly configured, later version of ckermit was typically as fast or faster than zmodem (at least, as I remember from the mid-1990s).
- jamiesonbecker 11y agoYeah this was a while ago. ;) My experience was that zmodem was incredibly fast under real-world conditions. It really was like getting a speed boost on your 300 or 1200 baud (or 2400 baud, if you were lucky!) pipe. Anyone remember xmodem or ymodem as well? EDIT: I didn't realize he'd written ymodem as well! What a brilliant guy.
- jandrese 11y agoYeah, but getting Kermit properly configured required the blood of three chickens and a wizard. Z-Modem had sane defaults right out of the box.