Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!otc!uqcspe!miw From: miw@uqcspe.OZ (Mark Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: The origin of 'KERMIT' (Was Re: Origin of 'awk') Message-ID: <1765@uqcspe.OZ> Date: 21 Mar 88 06:54:15 GMT References: <2111@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> <1448@mtune.ATT.COM> <2314@bsu-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: miw@uqcspe.oz (Mark Williams) Organization: Prentice Computer Centre, University of Queensland Lines: 31 In article <2314@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes: > >Sure, and I suppose you'll tell us next that Kermit stands for >Kilobaud-rate ERror-free Microcomputer Information Transfer. Quote from: _KERMIT:_Users_Guide_and_Secification_ by Bill Catchings and Frank da Cruz Columbia University Centre for Computing Activities 17 September 1981 - No Rights Reserved - "Kermit is a set of programs that implement the "Kl 10 Error-free Reciprocal Microcomputer Interchange over Tty-lines" protocol. (However I saw in a later manual somewhere that the name KERMIT is used with permission of Henson and Associates.) >Guvf vf zber sha vs V yrnir bhg gur fzvyrl snpr. :-) >Rahul Dhesi UUCP: !{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi Mark Williams Arpa: ccwilliams%wombat.decnet.uq.oz@uunet.uu.net -- DISCLAIMER: Whenever I tell them my opinions they fall asleep. Pound for pound, the amoeba is the most vicious creature on earth.