2026-08-04 10:07 UTC
I didn't know Kermit was so advanced and versatile as I used it little back in the day. The venerable file transfer protocol, which turns 45, is also a great story of old school, non corporate open source.
https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44456-celebrating-45-years-of-kermit-with-the-first-new-c-kermit-release-in-15-years-and-working-with-a-decades-old-c-codebase
#kermit #protocol #retrocomputing #foss
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-09-20 00:51
@amoroso@oldbytes.space oh, it was the "curl" of its day. i'd install it on any machine i needed to do real work on.
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@johntimaeus@infosec.exchange 2026-09-20 01:11
@amoroso@oldbytes.space I'd almost forgotten about Kermit. So many cron scripts that held infrastructure together.
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@alderson@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-09-20 07:08
@amoroso@oldbytes.space Dozens and dozens of implementations, some with amazing capabilities—the PDP-8 version could interpret PDP-10 files (a program running on a 12 bit system dealing with 36 bit data), for instance.