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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS Kermit: release 3.15 or 3.16?
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:34:52 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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On 2006-08-25, Igor Sobrado <igor@nospam.invalid> wrote:
: Well, I am really interested in getting an HP-150 II as a terminal
: to my HP 9000 workstation. Kermit will probably not be very useful
: on one of these terminal but, as you say, you never know! :-)
:
MS-DOS Kermit was fully supported on the HP-150 up to a certain point; we did
the port ourselves. We used it here extensively in the days when we had
HP-150s on the desktop and HP-UX servers. The binaries are labeled MSVHP1 (as
opposed to MSVHPX for the HP-110 portable). I believe 3.10 of March 1991 was
the last release for both. Somebody with access to these platforms and the
appropriate development tools could probably build the newer versions.
The HP version of MS-DOS Kermit was interesting in that, like the DEC Rainbow
version, it had no terminal emulation code. None was needed, the PC console
itself was a real terminal -- HP2161 in this case, as I recall, and it also
had graphics capabilities; you could connect it to an HP pen plotter to print
the graphics in color. Of course you could also print them in monochrome on
the little thermal printer imbedded in its "head".
I believe, btw, the HP-150 was the first PC with 3.5-inch diskettes.
: I will continue running C-Kermit on NetBSD, OpenBSD, HP-UX, IRIX,
: Solaris and SINIX. By the way, I will try to build new binaries
: for SINIX-P 5.42A10 as soon as the new release is available.
:
Believe it or not, I have a Siemens Nixdorf RM-200 with SINIX 5.42. It was
one of the few machines I was able to save the recent "cleanup":
http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/museum
I hope it still works! (A few years ago, after it was soaked in waterfall,
it continued to work after it dried out.)
- Frank