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- Date: Sat, 18 Jul 87 12:26 N
- From: <BAGNARA@IBOINFN.BITNET> (Roberto Bagnara)
- Subject: Announcing Kermit68K, a Portable 68000 Kermit Program
- Keywords: 68000, Motorola 68000, OS-9
-
- I'm very pleased to announce that, after 1 year of work, the OS9/68000
- version of Kermit68K pre-release 1.0.00 is ready to be distributed.
-
- Kermit68K/OS9 is an implementation of Kermit68K for microcomputer systems
- running the OS-9/68000 operating system from Microware. Kermit68K is patterned
- after UNIX C-Kermit, however it is written completely in Motorola 68000
- assembly language to allow easy portability to 68000 based systems without C
- compilers. The OS-9 system specific modifications were performed by Steve
- Williams of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the
- University of Texas at Austin.
-
- Kermit68K has been designed and written to be (among other things)
- portable. This means that it can be implemented on any 68000 based machine
- with any operating system (really also on machines without an operating
- system). Furthermore (being highly modular, ROMable etc.) it is suitable for
- nonstandard, specific applications (e.g. automatic data transmission from a
- remote acquisition station to a database host computer).
-
- I hope, by pre-releasing Kermit68K at this time, to involve experts of
- other operating systems/machines. People willing to try other implementations
- of Kermit68K (for example under UniFLEX, PDOS, VERSADOS, CPM/68K etc.)
- shouldn't hesitate to contact me at any time. The type and amount of work
- necessary is deducible by reading the distribution file K6GSYS.ASM (the only
- system dependent module).
-
- Finally I want to remind the potential users of Kermit68K/OS9 that we, I
- and Steve, need a strong feedback; there are many things to test and correct.
- Furthermore I'm continuously upgrading the program and I should take many
- decisions, so users suggestions will be very useful to me. Please, feel free
- to contact me at any time. Cordially,
-
- Roberto Bagnara
-
-
- Ordinary Mail: Roberto Bagnara
- Physics Department
- Bologna University
- via Irnerio, 46
- 40126 BOLOGNA
- Italy
-
- Bitnet: Bagnara@Iboinfn
-
- DECnet: 39937::BAGNARA
-
- Arpanet, Usenet: bagnara%iboinfn.bitnet@wiscvm.wisc.edu
-
- (End of K6AAAA.ANN)
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