Kermit

ˈkɜːmɪt

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#1·6h ago

The puppet Kermit the Frog, host of The Muppet Show and a frequent character in Sesame Street, originally performed by creator Jim Henson.

Origin: Variant of English and , cognate with Irish Mac Diarmata and Scots Gaelic son of Dermot. Popularized in the US by the naming of Kermit Roosevelt (after a Manx ancestor). The computing sense is named after the Sesame Street character, but later provided with a backronym ("KL10 Error-Free Reciprocal Microprocessor Interchange over TTY"). Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·6h ago

(computing) An asynchronous file transfer protocol, often used for communication between different types of minicomputer or mainframe.

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#3·6h ago

, named after Kermit Roosevelt.

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