Date: Sat, 18 Jul 87 12:26 N From: (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)