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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 1 year ago
software products of finnish software company arisoft. it is fun observation that the whole serial link thing that they had on-going is generation over what people use today when they connect TTL-USB-cable. Arisoft had a MS-DOS software in the early 90s that made possible to "smurf" your way in through the serial and have simultaneous file transfer at the same time. multitasking is imho the future.

so when i look at this web page i'm literally not looking into the past but to one generation ahead in the hopefully not so distant future.

#zmodem #smodem #bbs #serial #tty
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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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lol priceless clip art from 90s and afaik the place is still mainly a computer repair shop in vantaa finland. but they did smodem. pretty awkward piece of finnish computing history tbh :-) https://www.arisoft.fi/smurf/ohje.htm
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@suihkulokki well it is literal fact that smodem protocol is still the king of serial link albeit quite unuseful. the same idea as in smodem protocol could be extended to the direction that instead of chatting with the sysop you have a TTY session while file is transferring in the background. so totally modern stuff
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