The origin of 'KERMIT' (Was Re: Origin of 'awk')

[Mark Williams]

In article <2314 at bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi at 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.)

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:-)

>Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi


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