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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Kermit, more capabalities
Date: 2 Feb 2000 23:19:53 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <8y2m4.17191$ox5.4034701@tw11.nn.bcandid.com>,
<cangel@famvid.com> wrote:
: As for earning minimum wage, you probably don't think about it
: often but I keep finding myself communicating via email with
: shut-ins who are handicapped and cannot even earn minimum wage.
: Their income is probably below minimum wage, I don't ask them.
:...
:
: FD> will likely get one. Myself and others have disposed of
: FD> several obsolete machines that way.
:
: Yes, Frank, you can throw away what those earning minimum wage
: cannot purchase. I'm happy for you.
:
Charles, please attribute quotes to the people who made them. That
wasn't me. As you might know, the Kermit Project has always made a
point of producing accessible software compatible with low-end
equipment and with speech and Braille devices. We have always done
this and we do it today. You can run MS-DOS Kermit on a Day-1 IBM PC
with only floppy diskettes and 640K (less, really, maybe 512K) of
memory (*), and you can hook your accessibility devices to it and it
works great. If you have a hearing impairment, it also has a visible
bell. The key mapping provides relief to those who have difficulty
with the keyboard. All of this in software that you can download for
free and get tech support for free too. Within reason!
The result might be "ugly" by modern standards, but we believe
functionality and accessibility are more important than the slickness
required for mass market appeal and financial success. We serve, and
have always served, the very constituency for whom you are speaking up.
Your quarrel is not with us, it's with the BBSs that don't install a
decent Kermit implementation. It's not our job to make Zmodem work
better. That's not included in your free tech support.
(*) If you have a PC with less memory, you can run earlier releases of
MS-DOS Kermit -- they are all in our archive.
- Frank