Date   : Thu, 19 Jul 1984 07:57:26 EDT (Thursday)
From   : Jeffrey Edelheit <edelheit@Mitre.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Do You Know Kermit??!? - (nf)

Bill - Kermit is a file transfer protocol developed by Columbia University.
It is a protocol that runs on a large number of "mainframes" (often super-
minis) and also a large number of micros.  The June and July issues of 
Byte had a two part article on Kermit.  As you don't have FTP capabilities
with Columbia-20, you can send a net msg to Frank da Cruz (cc.fdc at 
columbia-20.arpa) to get further specifics on how a usenetter can get
Kermit.

For what its worth, we are currently looking at Kermit as a candidate as
the "official" file transfer protocol of MITRE.  Also, it is the official
protocol used by the National Institutes of Health's DEC-20 computer
system.

Jeff Edelheit
(edelheit@mitre)