Frank da Cruz is the person who has driven Kermit for over 20 years. I believe the original MS-DOS version was written by Daphne Tzoar. The return code stuff was a translation from the CP/M (8080/Z80) version which in turn was based on DEC-20 assembley code. Since it had fixed-length instruction skipping worked very nicely on it.
-Bill
Actually, the protocol and program was named after a Kermit and Miss Piggy poster on the wall of my office. Frank da Cruz was my boss at the time. I wrote the original DEC-20 and CP/M versions of Kermit. Frank later got permission from Henson to use the name and has overseen Kermit in the 20 years since I left Columbia. Check out http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/dec20.html#kermit for some more information.
-Bill
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Frank da Cruz is the person who has driven Kermit for over 20 years. I believe the original MS-DOS version was written by Daphne Tzoar. The return code stuff was a translation from the CP/M (8080/Z80) version which in turn was based on DEC-20 assembley code. Since it had fixed-length instruction skipping worked very nicely on it. -Bill
Actually, the protocol and program was named after a Kermit and Miss Piggy poster on the wall of my office. Frank da Cruz was my boss at the time. I wrote the original DEC-20 and CP/M versions of Kermit. Frank later got permission from Henson to use the name and has overseen Kermit in the 20 years since I left Columbia. Check out http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/dec20.html#kermit for some more information. -Bill