IAS Kermit
 
          AUTHORS: F. Borger, Michael Reese Medical Center, Chicago, IL
                   Bruce C. Wright E P A

          Operating System: IAS, Version 3.1, 3.2
 
          Source Language:  MACRO-11
 
 

          IAS kermit is Brian Nelson's RSX11 kermit. There are three notable
          changes made to bring this version up under IAS.

          1/   Bruce C. Wright made the necessary changes to use version 1.8
               RMS11 file I/O.  As such, it can not do xxx*.* type wildcards
               but  it can do *.*.  This will be the case until IAS supports
               version 2 of RMS.

           2/  Due to the lack of a get size of readahead qio request  under
               IAS, the E P A connect code did one qio per  character reads.
               this produced an intolerable burden on the system, and limit-
               ed operation to 300 baud. Changes to the connect code done at
               Michael Reese  used reads with subsequent mark times followed
               by a kill io, (which returned the partial read.) This allowed
               operation nicely at 1200 baud, (but has not been tested above
               that speed.)

           3/  The current  IAS version  is a couple of tapes behind Brian's
               RSX version. (We only had the package a short time before the
               spring DECUS deadline.) We will make every attempt to prepare
               a version that is  only 1 tape behind Brian's work for subse-
               quent DECUS tapes.

          Distribution: 600' 1600bpi magtape, BRU format