Thie page updated 1 August 2021 to convert FTP links to HTTP.
Macintoshes running Mac OS X have their own native Kermit program: C-Kermit 8.0 (or later). Don't bother with this
page if you have Mac OS X.
Smithsonian InstitutionMacintosh Kermit was devoped at Columbia University starting the
moment the first Macintosh was released in 1984, based on C-Kermit 4.0 but
with a Macintosh graphical user interface added. Mac Kermit 0.993(192),
based on C-Kermit 6.0.19 (circa 1996) was the last release of Macintosh
Kermit, but it is not a real release. Even though Mac Kermit was widely
used for over ten years on mc68000-based Macs, it still had numerous rough
edges, and it probably won't work at all on modern Macintoshes. If it runs
at all on your Mac, it is usable for most serial communications tasks. It
includes a VT320 emulator, a normal Macintosh graphical user interface as
well as the more powerful C-Kermit command interface, and C-Kermit's Kermit
protocol engine. Various features and commands still need to be filled in,
the menus need reworking and filling out, and many bugs need fixing.
There has been no work on Macintosh Kermit since 1996 due to a lack of
qualified and willing Macintosh programmers, and ultimately because the
original Macintosh OS was phased out in favor in Mac OS X, a form
of Unix, and therefore also for C-Kermit.
Using Mac Kermit by Christine M. Gianone,
unpublished draft manuscript (1991). This was to be the published manual
for Mac Kermit 1.0, if it had ever been released, but it wasn't
completed. CLICK HERE to download it
PDF format. Note that this manuscript has a lot of frog images in it,
which would have to be removed before publication. And a lot of crude
line drawings done with the mouse that would have been replaced by
professional illustrations. (In those days, we had illustrators.)
Macintosh Kermit /
Columbia University /
30 September 2011 /
Updated:
Sun Aug 1 14:35:58 2021