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So sad to hear, as one who grew up with tech like this. I actually had a short online chat with Ward Christiansen on CompuServe in.... 1985 to 1987ish time fra
by michaelcampbell 7y ago
So sad to hear, as one who grew up with tech like this.
I actually had a short online chat with Ward Christiansen on CompuServe in.... 1985 to 1987ish time frame. He said he was surprised many people even remembered XMODEM.
- myself248 7y agoHah! XMODEM still shows up in a surprising number of places. Bootloaders and stuff use it for firmware recovery, although I think we're past the era where Cisco routers used it for OS upgrades.