Kermit Alive and Well on the Space Station

Posted by michael on Wednesday December 10, 2003 @10:18AM from the i-don't-want-to-go-on-the-cart dept.

An Ominous Cow Erred writes "Spacedaily.com reports on the use of the fantastic Kermit "program" being used to communicate with devices on the international space station. While the article's author doesn't seem to have a quite perfect grasp on what Kermit is (and effuses about how Kermit is being used to help war-torn Bosnia and advance AIDS research) it brought a smile to my face to imagine the old protocol from my BBS days (which was scorned in favor of Zmodem) being used on the greatest technological achievement of humankind."

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Kermit is not *free* by zulux · 2003-12-10 10:40 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Kermit is just another closed protocall/application that you have to pay to use.

I anddtion, C-Kermit/Kermit 95 is just a huge kitchen sink peice of software. NOT THE UNIX WAY AT ALL.

Ketmit is to protocall as Micsoroft Office is to text editing.

I belongs in the dustbin of history: wight next to PCAnywhere and Microsoft MAPI.

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