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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hmmm... by Tumbleweed · 2003-12-10 11:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

"It's not easy being green in space."

I wonder if the Pigs in Space helped out on this mission?
I thought by www.sorehands.com · 2003-12-10 11:10 · Score: 0, Redundant

I thought Frank was the person who wrote the MS-DOS version in 8086. He had a cute method of doing returns from routines that would return one place if successful and another if failed by playing with the stack return value, then doing a ret.

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