KERMIT-12 (or anything else) for the KL8-A? - alt.sys.pdp8

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Johnny Billquist

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From: Johnny Billquist <b...@update.uu.se>

Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 19:31:37 +0200

Local: Thurs, May 1 2008 1:31 pm

Subject: Re: KERMIT-12 (or anything else) for the KL8-A?

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Bob Armstrong skrev:

> On May 1, 6:23 am, Johnny Billquist <b...@update.uu.se> wrote:

>> why would you ever want four serial lines in WPS-8?

> Wasn't the DEC DataSystem 310 a PDP-8/A based WPS system? It used a
> VT52 as the editing terminal, and I suppose it's possible that there
> was a timeshared version of WPS that supported four terminals at once.

Never heard of a timeshared version of WPS-8, and I very much doubt one exists...
WPS-8 was based on, and running from an RX01 floppy... I have a copy here
somewhere...

Johnny

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