On 2020-02-28 18:22, William Pechter wrote:

> I used to be the guy who
> at the most desperate would get Kermit over a 3 wire interface to allow
> data transfer between different systems.  Or UUCP on ms-dos...
> 
> Something about jack of all trades.

Kermit seems to be or was(?) the Swiss army knife of communications.
Or the 9-track tape ...
;-)