Vax – Roumazeilles.net https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress Technology opinions and others Fri, 20 May 2011 19:44:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Kermit, it’s the end https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2011/05/21/kermit-its-the-end/ https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/2011/05/21/kermit-its-the-end/#respond Sat, 21 May 2011 19:32:47 +0000 https://www.roumazeilles.net/news/en/wordpress/?p=5015 You know that you’re a computer dinosaur when you discover that a computer program you started with is reaching its end-of-life after… 30 years.

The Kermit Project is canceled, effective 1 July 2011.

I think that I actually started using Kermit on a Vax 11/780 computer from Digital Equipment Corporation to exchange data between various microprocessor-based small systems.

This was top-notch high-end computer science… then.

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