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

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Vincent Slyngstad

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From: "Vincent Slyngstad" <v...@no.spam.msn.com>

Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 14:08:59 GMT

Local: Thurs, May 1 2008 10:08 am

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

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"Bob Armstrong" wrote ...

> On May 1, 6:23 am, Johnny Billquist 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.

I believe so, and looking at some of my WPS documents, there was
definitely KL8A support there, and something also used KL8A in the
DECnet software (which I know even less about).

I hadn't said anything, as I'm not sure that it is really a different
thing from the RTS support. Wasn't the multi-user WPS based on RTS?
I've never used either, so I only have a vague memory of reading that
somewhere. Maybe I'm thinking of Edusystem, or something.

Vince

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