On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: > On Sunday 25 June 2006 22:02, John J. Foster wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 12:46:16PM -0700, Lord Sauron wrote: > > > I have it on extremely good authority that it goes 2MB/sec. > > > > it's always a good thing to question authority. > > Well, the used protocol has to do with it too.. and what I remember from my > BBS days is that kermit is extremely reliable and runs on more or less > everything, but also that it does give a new meening to the word slow.. > zmodem or even sealink would already improve a lot.. > Man, this thread hurts. I _had_ forgotten fighting kermit to communicate to a Prime 650 (running Primos 18 something I think). God that was awful!
later,
festus
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