Kermit is a software file transfer and management protocol and set of communications tools, it provides a consistent approach to [file transfer]
?, [terminal emulation]
?, script programming, and character-set conversion across many different hardware and OS platforms.
Developed at Columbia University in 1981 to allow students to use [removable media]? to hold mainframe files and use remote terminals with the DEC-20? machines. This developed into having the same software package on every computer, all based on the DEC-20 Kermit. MS-DOS Kermit was developed in the same year.
Also the first name of the
muppet Kermit the Frog
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